When you install wine, it creates a fake enviroment for windows apps. usually in /var/lib/wine eg:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] www]# cd /var/lib/wine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wine]# ls autoexec.bat config.sys My Documents/ Program Files/ windows/ as you can see, you have all the typical directories a windows program could possibly look for. So in the path, just use the c:\program files\someappname and wine will see to it that it gets put in the right place. Wine bascially fools those apps into thinking that c:\xxxxx actuall exists when really its putting the stuff in /var/lib/wine/program files/somedir make sense? now go forth and konquer. :-) regards Franki htmlfixit.com >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich >Sent: Saturday, 16 August 2003 4:37 AM >To: Newbie >Subject: [newbie] Wine question > > >Through the years I've noticed that quite a few people on this >great list dual boots Windows occasionally. I've never had >Windows on my box - and never will. > >But right now I have a problem : My oldest daughter just started >in college and her math teacher demands her to buy a program >called *Derive*. It's a math program from Texas Instruments and >I've visited their website just to find out it's a Windows app >only - no Unix/Linux version. > >Well, my daughters scuttled their preinstalled Windows-crap when >they bought their computers and are using Linux on a daily basis >with no problems insofar. So I told them - maybe a little too >enthusiastic - that Linux can do anything, including running >Windows applications through an emulator. > >So I just installed wine and downloaded the *Derive* program. >This seems to be a file called *setup.exe*. Then, I typed *wine >setup.exe* and everything seemed OK until it ask me for a >*folder* for installation. The screen suggest strange *folders* >like *c:\programs* etc.. (???) - I don't have such *folders*, so >I typed : /usr/share/derive (having created that *folder* of >course. But the program doesn't seem able to find any *folders* >on my system, no matter what I type. > >The man pages for wine do not mention this problem, but I'm >confident some of you can help me out on this - probably very >trivial - hiccup. > >Thanks in advance > >Kaj Haulrich. >-- >Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org >Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk >Sent to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. > >
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