Calling Linux OpenOffice from a Windows App Under Wine

[Robert Jung]

Hello Adam,

Friday, April 23, 2004, 9:48:52 PM, you wrote:

AK> I'm running iManage Desksuite under WINE, which is working quite well.
AK> iManage is a common document management system used in law offices (among
AK> other places).

AK> What I'd like to do is associate DOC files in iManage with my Linux
AK> version of OpenOffice.  There is a 'less tightly integrated' mode for
AK> iManage whereby documents, when checked out, are saved to a temporary
AK> directory and then it calls the external program to open them.

AK> I've told iManage to open z:\usr\bin\openoffice (I never thought I'd see
AK> a z:\usr\bin!) and it does call openoffice properly.  The problem is that
AK> it passes it a Windows path to open the file--i.e.,
AK> c:\Windows\NRTEcho\etc.., which, of course, openoffice doesn't understand
AK> at all.

AK> Is there an easy way to have *linux* programs that are executed from a
AK> Windows program running under WINE get the proper path to the real file
AK> in the linux filesystem?  I suppose I could have a wrapper for every
AK> linux app I want to call from a windows app in WINE that translates the
AK> path, but I'm wondering if there is a more sensible way to do this.

Hmm you could write a simple script as "translator"
IManage should open this, and the program opens openoffice with the
right params.

Shouldn't be that prob at all (if you know how to prog scripts)


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 Robert                            mailto:syvox at chello.at