Thanks Mark! I'm going to try them tonight!
At 10:37 PM 8/30/00 -0400, you wrote:
>THis isn't exactly the text book way to use it, but I found this quite by
>accident actually. Open the KDE file manager, or use the one that Gnome
>uses. Find an executable on your WIndows partition that you want to run,
>right click on the file and from the menu choose "open with". When the
>dialog box comes up type "wine" in the field offered and hit <ENTER>.
>
>Otherwise, open a terminal window, type:
>
> wine C:\\path to\\program file\\filename.exe
>
> or
>
> wine /mnt/windows/progra~1/dir_name/filename.exe
>
>You'll notice that I used a DOS style name convention. You will find that
>that will be necessary for directory names and file names that are longer
>than 8 characters when attempting to references file names and/or
>directory names that have "white" spaces in them. Linux does not support
>this as we all know Windows does.
>
>In the first command line example the only reason I used the "spaces" was
>to represent a typical Windows style system path statement. And you're not
>seeing a typo. When referencing a Windows style path statement you are
>required to use "two" (2) backslashes, where you only need "one" (1) front
>slash when you're using the Unix path statement style to call the Windows
>executable.
>
>Anyhow...that's how it's done.
>
>--
>Mark
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>On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Brisco County Jr. wrote:
>
> > Been trying to figure out Wine - how exactly do you use it? I can't get it
> > to even start. Thanks
> >
> >
> >
