[Wine] Can't get wine to run any programs: included error message.

[James McKenzie]

On 2/19/11 5:45 PM, kpwall wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I figured out that I have to use a "terminal window," to use wine.
>
> I was able to open notepad and explorer in wine; both of these files are in the main windows folder: c:\windows/*.exe will open notepad or explorer
>
> In windows 7 the full file path I can find for say Internet Explorer is:  c:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer however the command: wine c:\Program Files (x86)/Internet Explorer.exe will not open the application and results in bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>
>
> And vitamin I haven't been able to load that page yet it times out or something as do most of the other @%$#ing  help pages I am trying to open or I get a 404 fiel not found on many google links
>
You have to 'escape' the left AND right parenthesis like this.  However, 
Wine does not use Program Files (x86), so it appears you were trying to 
map in the Windows C: drive to be your Wine C: drive and that just 
totally hosed your Windows installation and broke Wine so it WILL NOT work.

What are you trying to do here?

James McKenzie