[Wine] Application will only run when executed from its directory

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 10:03:42 CST 2009


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:00 AM, netgui68 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Does using:
> $ wine "C:\Scan\program.exe"
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> It runs but not correctly, I receive all kinds of errors about not being able to build table files and such...If I go to the start menu and tell wine to let me browse the C:\ drive and execute the application there...it works flawlessly.  Trying to execute it from any other place gives me errors.
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Many programs rely on being run from their current directory, Delphi
was well known for that.

If your window manager supports it, you can tell it to run from that
directory, then use the full path. Should work then.

-- 
-Austin



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