[Wine] windows programms starting linux programms
Jan Murawski
der at oelgoetze.de
Tue Nov 21 14:23:21 CST 2006
L. Rahyen schrieb:
> On Tuesday November 21 2006 11:41, Jan Murawski wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I have got the following problem: I'd like to use the windows version of
>> firefox in linux. When I download a file and tell firefox which
>> application to use with it, the application opens fine. But the path of
>> the file given to it by firefox is in windows style (C:\...). Is there a
>> (easy) way to tell wine to covert the path to linux style? If yes, where
>> can I read more about it?
>
> Forgot to say. You can also use winepath to convert between different paths.
> So you can easy convert from Windows path to Unix path. You can to use this
> command to provide Unix path for Linux applications from within Windows
> application. Just instead of application use simple script. For example
> create with your favorite text editor file /usr/bin/linuxapplication.win with
> following content:
>
> for i in $@
> {
> paths="$paths `winepath --unix $i`";
> }
> linuxapplication $paths
>
> Call linuxapplication.win instead of linuxapplication from Windows
> application under Wine. It should work for most cases. Of course you should
> replace "linuxapplication" with actual name of your linux application.
>
>
I've got no time to test this now, but it looks good. Thanks!
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