[Wine] Multiple instances of wine?

[James McKenzie]

On 1/1/11 5:40 PM, Secured wrote:
> Aah, repetition! Or echo?  vitamin, thank you, I am beginning to understand it, finally.  My next question was what exactly are wine prefixes?
> Then went searching and got here: http://www.winehq.org/search/?cx=partner-pub-0971840239976722%3Aw9sqbcsxtyf&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=wineprefixes&siteurl=www.winehq.org%2Fdocs%2Fwineusr-guide%2Fwineserver-command-line-options#1293
> and found the same question on the third post here:
> http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=9657&sid=940072f62c7f7a22a4ea124db3622534
>
> > From what I have been reading, it seems that I have to create a separate folder for each app, or instance of it, is that true?
>
> I am having a problem, created folder /home/user/.wine/abc then created launcher with the command
> WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.wine/abc wine spider.exe and got an error :( what-did-I-miss?  ...more reading require, eh?
>
Try creating a folder called  $HOME/wineabc
Then set use the command:
export WINEPREFIX=%HOME/wineabc
Then run the program
wine spider.exe

Then advise what happens.

James McKenzie