[Wine] Re: How do I do this?

Tlarhices wineforum-user at winehq.org
Wed Jul 23 21:48:55 CDT 2008


jnewl wrote:
> Ah, thank you. So are you saying that the command I typed should work as long as I use quotes or double slashes?
> 
> I just tried 
> 
> $ wine "home\[restofpathname]\mod.exe" r64.dll
> 
> and it still says it can't find mod.exe. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> I also tried using the double slashes, but it doesn't recognize two word directory names ("Program Files") using that method. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do in that case. Like I said, I'm a complete noob to Linux.


Here you are using a Unix path, so you should use '/' insted of '\'
But the best for wine is to cd in the exe folder before starting it. To do this :
cd "/home/[restofpathname]"
wine mod.exe r64.dll

See this for more details :
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3b297df7a5411abe2b8d37fead01a2b8edc21619

And :
http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/running







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