Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:12:26PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote:
> At 02:51 PM 8/9/05, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:55:59PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote:
> >> Under SUSE93, I figured out how to create a "drive J" in wine (using ln 
> >-s),
> >> but I don't know how to make "J" the current/working drive/directory 
> >before
> >> invoking the DOS app.  Any ideas how to properly invoke this app under
> >> Linux?
> >
> >cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
> >ln -s /what/ever/directory j:
> >
> >and now drive j: points to the installation.
> 
> 
> I *did* that!  My question was "what's next?".
>         wine j:program.exe
> will invoke the program, but the working/current drive is not "J:" - at 
> least that's what the application says when I try to run it. I think the 
> current drive is still "C:", but I'm not even sure how to confirm that. 

Just cd /what/ever/directory ; wine foo.exe

It should pick up that it is in J:

Ciao, Marcus