[Wine] launching wine application for mozilla mail attachments

Jerry Geis geisj at pagestation.com
Sun Dec 31 11:05:05 CST 2006


Your suggestion didnt work for me, so I tried the following:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
FILE=`basename $@`
mv $@ /home/silentm/drive_c/$FILE
/usr/local/bin/wine c:/windows/efaxview.exe c:/$FILE

This did work but might not be the best...

THanks for the help,

Jerry


L. Rahyen wrote:
> On Sunday December 31 2006 14:36, Jerry Geis wrote:
>   
>> I did that and the file is put in the /tmp/filename.efx directory.
>> I tried manually running wine myapp.exe /tmp/filename.efx
>> and it wont open the file from the /tmp directory.
>>     
>
> 	Very strange. If I run "wine notepad /tmp/test.txt" notepad tells me that 
> file "mp/test.txt" doesn't exist. But if I execute "cd /; wine notepad 
> tmp/test.txt" everything works fine. This looks like a bug. Applications 
> launched with Wine always fail to open file if their argument contains "/" at 
> the beggining (that means all absolute unix paths cannot be given as 
> arguments to Windows programs!).
> 	Anyway, to solve your problem try the following:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env sh
> wine C:\\windows\\efaxview.exe `winepath -w "$@"`
>
>
>   



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