[Bug 34730] Wine can no longer execute unix programs

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34730

--- Comment #27 from Emmanuel Charpentier <emm.charpentier at free.fr> ---
(In reply to Alexandre Julliard from comment #26)
> You have to use cmd (or some other Windows application) to launch Unix
> binaries, yes. That's what the FAQ is about.

So the FAQ § 7.4 should be rewritten to explain the exact procedure to use. The
example given does *NOT* work currently.

> The wine loader only supports loading Windows binaries, and there doesn't
> seem to be any need to change that.

There seems to be ssome corner-case counterexamples :

> If you are running Unix binaries from
> Unix, there's no reason to go through the wine loader at all.

I am thinking of launching Linux bibaries from customizable but not
recompilable Windows binaries (case in point : the Zotero plugin for Word,
which (hopefully) can be modified to talk to a Linux Firefox binary...).

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