HELP: Opening WINE app. A via Wine app. B?

UserDemos · Post by **UserDemos** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:03 am

Hey there,

Long time reader, long time WINE user, and finally, first time running into a problem.

I have an application sent to me from a friend in Japan (call it abc.exe). He also provided a translation program (call it 123.exe), but I need to open the original program through the translator. So, in Windows, I would create a shortcut that said (open abc.exe using 123.exe). And it would open the abc.exe through the 123.exe allowing me to read the translation. The translation program has no open option. It doesn't work any other way.

So, does anyone have any idea how I can accomplish this? I tried using a custom command using right-click, open...and that didn't work, or perhaps I did it wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance! - Dimitre

EDIT: Forgot to mention I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and Wine 1.1.2, the newest. Hope that helps.

UserDemos · Post by **UserDemos** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:27 pm

Any help at all? I'm genuinely stuck. I've read wikis. FAQs, searched, and more and I just can't figure out how to do this.

Thanks! - D

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:19 pm

UserDemos wrote:Any help at all? I'm genuinely stuck. I've read wikis. FAQs, searched, and more and I just can't figure out how to do this.

Thanks! - D

Assuming your program 123.exe and abc.exe are in c:\abc

from a terminal, cd ~/.wine/drive_c/abc && wine 123.exe abc.exe

ps. it's Wine not WINE http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8b4fbbe ... f0e8d25f2e