[Wine] How to: Run a DOS program using Wine

[Pavel Troller]

Hi!

> I have a new EeePC from ASUS with Xandros version of linux installed.  I have installed wine, and believe that the installation works for at least some windows programs.   Looking in the windows\system32 directory I see notepad and progman, both of which run and look reasonable.
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> What I really want to do is to run a command window, i.e. cmd.exe.  Even though it is there, when I attempt to execute it (either as cmd <enter> or as cmd.exe <enter>) I get told bash: cmd: command not found.

You have to enter "wine cmd.exe". It should work.
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> Reason I want to do this is so that I can run a DOS program of mine.   I can run that program using DOSBOX, but there is a slight problem and that does not work quite 100%.   I also have attempted to use DOSEMU, but that is much worse in several ways.
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Wine is not intended to run DOS programs. I'm afraid that it will not work. I'm afraid that you will have to live with DosBox :-(.


> So -- question is:  How can I get a DOS program to run using WINE, similar to how I run it in windows XP using a CMD window?
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Even if it probably will not work, the correct answer is: Use bash, cd to the directory containing the program, and enter "wine <program name>". It will try to do, what you are asking for...