[Wine]How do I launch a dos/windows program through wine

[Hiji]

Hi Andy,

I think that's overcomplicating things a bit
(especially for someone new to Wine & possibly Linux.)
;)

The easiest/ simplest thing to do is (from command
line and where c: is the fake windows drive):
> wine "c:\fileToLaunch.exe"

On the Linux desktop, using that line above in
creating a Launcher will suffice.  No scripting
required!

Hiji

--- Andy Allen <andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> I think you need to call the .exe file from a shell
> script which goes in
> your bin directory - the script should be of the
> form:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> . findwine
> $WINE
>
"c:\\some_directory\\another_directory\\program_name.exe"
> $@
> &>/dev/null &
> 
> You can then run the script from the command line
> (or Nautilus) - hope
> that helps.
> 
> Andy
> 
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:45, Alan TJ Dripps wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I have installed wine on my linux distribution,
> and have looked through
> > all the documentation supplied and online and
> still haven't been able to
> > run a dos/windows application through wine.  I am
> trying to launch a
> > dos/windows '.exe' file in linux through wine.
> > 
> > Alan Dripps.
> 
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