[Wine] wine handles an app weirdly in ubuntu 8.04

Vitorio Okio ovitorio at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 16 16:45:06 CDT 2008


On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:21:32 -0500, vitamin wrote:

> This is one of the broken apps that expects full path in the argv[0].
> This is not always the case. You need to give it what it wants. In other
> words, you have to specify _full windows_ path when you start it. Ex:

> wine 'c:\some_dir\program.exe'

This worked the same wrong way as I described before.

> wine start /unix /home/user/Desktop/some_other_dir/program.exe

But this did the trick.  It worked as a charm.

I thank you very much for the suggestion.  Now I can use my little 
utility the way I used to. :-)





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