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

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