[Wine] Re: trying to run a visual basic script via WINE - need help.

[Harlequin]

DaVince wrote:
> Wine can only run EXE files. the VBS file is just a script; Wine wouldn't know what to do with it, so you'll have to find the executable for Windows Scripting Host and run the script with that instead. I'm guessing, however, that WSH "registers" VBS files to WSH so you could use Wine's "start" command to open the VBS file with the appropiate (Windows) program:
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> Code:
> wine start script.vbs
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> Also, you could have installed WSH a bit easier by using Winetricks, it does all the hard work for you: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks


Ta, I ended up getting it working without having to use the script, but Winetricks is pretty neat thanks. The GUI is kind of lousy though.