Calling Linux OpenOffice from a Windows App Under Wine

[Rein Klazes]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:48:52 -0400, you wrote:

> I'm running iManage Desksuite under WINE, which is working quite well.
> iManage is a common document management system used in law offices (among
> other places).
> 
> What I'd like to do is associate DOC files in iManage with my Linux
> version of OpenOffice.  There is a 'less tightly integrated' mode for
> iManage whereby documents, when checked out, are saved to a temporary
> directory and then it calls the external program to open them.
> 
> I've told iManage to open z:\usr\bin\openoffice (I never thought I'd see
> a z:\usr\bin!) and it does call openoffice properly.  The problem is that
> it passes it a Windows path to open the file--i.e.,
> c:\Windows\NRTEcho\etc.., which, of course, openoffice doesn't understand
> at all.
> 
> Is there an easy way to have *linux* programs that are executed from a
> Windows program running under WINE get the proper path to the real file
> in the linux filesystem?  I suppose I could have a wrapper for every
> linux app I want to call from a windows app in WINE that translates the
> path, but I'm wondering if there is a more sensible way to do this.

Included with wine is the tool 'winepath' which converts DOS to and from
unix paths.

You could create a script:

  #!/bin/sh
  openoffice $( /usr/winepath "$@" )

Name it perhaps openoffice-from-wine, and call the script from your wine
application, with the DOS path as an argument.

Rein.
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Rein Klazes
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