[Wine] how to run programs on Mac OS X

[Gert van den Berg]

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 15:58, Karl Muller <karlmuller3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm a new mac user, and I'm a little lost.
> I've downloaded WINE and successfully used it to install a program called MATLAB R2007b 7.5 (it's a program for science/engineering stuff).
>
The better way would be to use the Mac OS version of MATLAB.... (It
doesn't support all the toolboxes and I'm not sure if it requires
another license though...)

> Under the Program Files in the WINE directory I've got my matlab folder, but it doesn't have a .exe file, the main program file is a .lnk. If I use WINE to run this in the terminal command space it says:
> wine: Bad EXE format for C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2007b\MATLAB R2007b.lnk
>
> There's also a .desktop file on my desktop, but that gives me the same thing:
> wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\Users\ksphere\Desktop\MATLAB R2007b.desktop
>
Isn't there a bin subdirectory or something?