[Wine] windows programms starting linux programms

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 24 November 2006 17:42, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> --- Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> a écrit :
> > This will either not work, or will be veru hard to get working,
> > because the Windows executable does not know about Linux paths.
> > It's not just a question of replacing all the "\" with "/", you
> > also have to figure a way around the dreaded "C:\"
> > alan
>
> never heard of winepath ?

Actually, I hadn't :-)

> [syl at wine All Users]$ winepath -w $HOME/.wine/dosdevices/c\:/windows
> c:\windows
> [syl at wine All Users]$ winepath -w ""
> c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\
>
> [syl at wine All Users]$ winepath -u "c:\Documents and Settings\All
> Users" /home/syl/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Documents and Settings/All Users

Thanks for the tip, this will come in handy

alan