[Saga Lout]

I apologise in advance if this is too basic but believe me, I have tried to sort it myself and failed dismally.

I'm new to Linux and settled oni PCLinuxOS - Big Daddy - as suitable for everything I need. I have an Ubuntu disk and may give it a go when I find some hard disk space but for the time being, Big Daddy is sufficient.

I added Wine in an attempt to get some form of AOL installation into Linux - more as a technical exercise than a need. My problem is that although I can get things with a simple path like Notepad to work in Wine, whenever I type anything into Terminal with a space, it fails. I've tried underscore, space, hyphen, full stop and ignoring the space altogether but nothing seems to work. I get "Wine cannot find" every time.

The version of AOL I put on is 5.0 so it doesn't go into Program Files - it just sits in C:\ but the Windows folder name inclues a space so the Linux syntax, as I understand it, should be wine c:\\aol 5.0\\aol.exe.

Can anyone please put me right on this one?

Thanks.

[fenderfreek]

To access things from the terminal that have spaces, use a backslash+space, like

cd My\ Documents

[Saga Lout]

Originally Posted by fenderfreek

To access things from the terminal that have spaces, use a backslash+space, like

cd My\ Documents

Thanks for that - one of the few characters I hadn't tried. However, I'm still in trouble. Even though I'm now seeing the correct Windows syntax in the error message, I do still get the error message - Wine cannot find etc.

I'm using the syntax wine c:\\program\ files\\skype\\phone\\skype.exe on a programme I'm trying to bring across and then I see the correct Windows path c:\program files\skype\phone\skype.exe as part of the cannot fifnd message.

If there was another reason for the failure, would Linux Terminal still use the same syntax?

[prunejuice]

Not all Windows programs work well (or work at all) under WINE.

[fenderfreek]

With wine paths I think you need to do

wine /actual/path/in/filesystem/foo.exe

Wine's "C drive" root is usually in your home directory in a path like

/home/youruserid/.wine/c_drive

so try doing

wine ~/.wine/c_drive/Program\ Files/skype/phone/skype.exe

It's also important to note that Linux is case sensitive, even in wine's pathnames.(Notice the P and F in Program Files)

No guarantees here, since I'm very unfamiliar with wine(I've installed it but never actually used more than once or twice), but good luck with it.

I don't know much about skype, but I'd be kind of surprised if there's not a native Linux app that can use the service. Try googling around for something like that and I'm sure you'll save a bit of headache.

Edit: Also, you can make a shell script to run it and put it in ~/bin, so you just have to type "skype" or something like that, instead of "wine pathname/blah/blah" every single time.

[Saga Lout]

Originally Posted by fenderfreek

It's also important to note that Linux is case sensitive, even in wine's pathnames.(Notice the P and F in Program Files)

I think that just explained it all. I should have thought that one for myelf as that was the case years back in some DOS versions. Oh! how easily they forget!