Wine and iexplore.exe

[JD]

On 09/16/2010 09:07 PM, 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.
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> If I run the same command I got  Invalid handle ..!!!  whats that
>
>    wine /home/tux/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/
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> wine: Invalid handle
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> Warm Regards
>
Well it seems that the wine runtime environment is missing something.
Also, I wonder if many of windows' programs assume there a windows
services daemon running to which they try to connect to obtain services.
I don't know that for sure, but it would make sense.