Wine and iexplore.exe

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 09/17/2010 12:07 AM, Jatin K wrote:
> On Friday 17 September 2010 08:27 AM, JD wrote:
>>    executed the command
>> wine "/sdb3/home/jd/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Internet
>> Explorer/iexplore.exe"
>>
>> After some time a gui window came up with tiny squares for text
>> and also a small banner titled Program error, with tiny squares
>> for text.
>>
>> After a while that gui window took more legible shape and became
>> a compose email window of outlook.
>>
>> Has anyone made it work?
>>
>> Just trying to see how well wine emulates windows runtime env.
>>
> If I run the same command I got  Invalid handle ..!!!  whats that

A handle is what windows calls a file unit.  So wine doesn't like the
pathname it received.

>   wine /home/tux/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/

I suspect your backshashed spaces are getting read correctly by the
shell, but when they get to wine, they are no longer escaped, so wine
sees the spaces instead of the quoted string.  Try quoting the pathname
as was done in the OP's posting.  I suspect the shell won't remove the
quotes in that case so wine will receive the quoted string.

> wine: Invalid handle
> 
> Warm Regards

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