Command line when program is not in the path

Björn Róbertsson bjornr at nyherji.is
Tue Jan 29 08:03:22 CST 2002


Try:
wine "C:\Program Files\...."

and make sure the upper/lower case matches, although the C: is I think 
irrelevant.

It works for me.

bjornr at nyherji.is

Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:

> Thanks for a smoothly installing and very functional release of wine
> (preview 5, codeweavers-wine-20011108-5.i386.rpm), which I am using
> with a default config from Redhat 7.1.
> 
> I am trying to construct a command line to invoke a program that is
> not in the [wine]Path but which is in the (windows partition) drive
> defined as C: in the wine config file.
> 
> I have tried putting my directory in the path and that works, but
> would prefer to place the fully qualified path in the command line
> (which will be a menu item in KDE).
> 
> This doesn't work:
> 
> wine C:\\Program\ Files\\intuit\\qbtimer\\qbtimer.exe
> 
> nor this
> wine "C:\\Program Files\\intuit\\qbtimer\\qbtimer.exe"
> 
> nor this
> wine C:\\Program\ Files\\intuit\\qbtimer\\qbtimer.exe --
> 
> nor this
> wine /mnt/win/Program\ Files/intuit/qbtimer/qbtimer.exe
> 
> nor this:
> 
> wine /mnt/win/Program\ Files/intuit/qbtimer/qbtimer.exe --
> 
> All invoke the qbtimer program and all get the same error from qbtimer:  
> Can't find timer file "Files/intuit/qbtimer.exe" ...
> 
> (This windows app takes a file name as a command line option that
> specifies the timer data file.)
> 
> It appears that the space in the executable's filename confuses the
> parse to discover what parameters should be passed to the application.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Carol Lerche
> 
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