On 5 May 2010 21:33, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 May 2010 21:30, Liam Wilson <[email protected]> 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. > >> 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 Jonathon -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
