On 5 May 2010 21:38, Jonathon Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 May 2010 21:33, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > > On 5 May 2010 21:30, Liam Wilson <liamwilso...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thing is, I can't mark it as executable, as it's on a CD, so now, 2 > things: > >> 1) Why am I being blocked from running .exe's on my computer? > > > > So you dont accidentally run "virus.exe". It makes it more of an > > intentional thing to execute the program. > > > I didn't think "virus.exe" would have much effect on an Ubuntu PC, regardless of whether it was using Wine or not, but thanks for pointing that out anyway. :) > >> 2) How do I work around this? > > > > Copy the contents to the hard disk, run it from there? > > > > Cheers, > > Al. > > > > You could also run it from a terminal with e.g. > $ cd /media/CDROMLABEL > $ wine ./game.exe > > Yeah, that worked great! Thanks! > Jonathon > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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