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rasat

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From: Finland

Registered: 2002-12-27

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Wine -> few questions

I installed Wine and its inspiring how well this Windows emulator has developed. Quicken 2003 runs smoothly. Thought replacing my Win4Lin 3 with Wine, which will not run with kernel 2.6.

<b>Question:</b>
1. How to run applications located in folder ~/Program Files/? Cannot find the exe file because of the space between "Program" and "Files".
Example:

wine /mnt/win_c/Program Files/Quicken/qw.exe

2. How to install applications in ~/.wine/fake_windows

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Nickm

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2003-02-25

Posts: 106

Re: Wine -> few questions

The first one i can help you with, the second one i guess is in ~/.wine/config

to run such an app do

wine /mnt/win_c/Program Files/Quicken/qw.exe 

instead of

wine /mnt/win_c/Program Files/Quicken/qw.exe 

RdsArts

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Registered: 2003-10-17

Posts: 32

Re: Wine -> few questions

WINE isn't a emulator. It's a API wrapper.
*the man who says GNU/Linux*

1) A backwards slash (  ) escapes characters like space. or use put quotes around the whole thing, like:
"this is my file name with spaces.totally.bz2"
2) Just install them in WINE.

rasat

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From: Finland

Registered: 2002-12-27

Posts: 2,301

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Re: Wine -> few questions

Thanks!
WINE is great. Did few tests with MS Office 2002 (WinWord, Excel and PowerPoint) and PhotoShop 5.0, all running nicely.

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Markku