when i type in wine in terminal, i get this:
Wine 20030813

Usage: wine [options] [--] program_name [arguments]
The -- has to be used if you specify arguments (of the program)

Options:
--debugmsg name Turn debugging-messages on or off
--dll name Enable or disable built-in DLLs
--help,-h Show this help message
--version,-v Display the Wine version

for example, when i type in:
wine notepad
notepad opens up, but what i want to know is how to open other programs?
i tried typing
wine Microsoft Word
but it says program not found, so how can i open ms word through wine? (or any other windows program for that matter)

p.s. i have 2 partitions, one for windows (NTFS) and one for linux (ext 3) if these info are relevant.

Hi

I think you got the wrong name there,

Try winword, that should start Microsoft Word

Cheers

i typed in:
wine winword
but it says, 'cannot find winword'

You've got to type the fully path of the executable following "wine."

So, let's just say your Windows partition lies on /dev/hda1: we need to mount it. Type "mkdir /mnt/windows" to create a mount point, and then type "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows" to mount /dev/hda1 to the /mnt/windows directory that we created. Now, let's just say that in Windows, MSWord is located at c:\Program Files\MSOffice\winword.exe -- assuming you've already set up wine with a fake windows directory & registry, type "wine /mnt/windows/Program*Files/MSOffice/winword.exe" -- case sensitivity counts.

Hope that helps to get you started. If you'd rather set this baby up with a GUI instead, check out Crossover office (not free) that will easily allow you to install MSOffice along with many other Windows-only programs.

If you do not have windows and office in a windows partition, i.e. windows free wine setup.

Locate winword.exe

The file inside is probably inside /home/username/.wine/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office10 directory, or something like that.

wine "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\winword.exe"


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My first attempt at helping answer questions

my msword 2003 is on a windows partition
anyway, i found its path and typed in:
wine /windows/C/Program*Files/Microsoft*Office/OFFICE11/WINWORD.EXE

but i get this:
fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Security directory ignored
fixme:msi:MsiGetProductCodeW L"{1EBDE4BC-9A51-4630-B541-2561FA45CCC5}" L"\3135\342d\3336\2d30\3542\3134\322d\3635\4631\3441\4335\4343\7d35"
fixme:seh:EXC_RtlRaiseException call to unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiProvideQualifiedComponentExW
fixme:msvcrt:_XcptFilter (-2147483392,0x406e1eb4)semi-stub
wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000b), starting debugger...
WineDbg starting on pid a
No debug information in ELF 'wine' ((nil))
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4000dd60
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/libntdll.dll.so' (0x40027000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/libwine.so.1' (0x40117000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/libwine_unicode.so.1' (0x4012f000)
No debug information in ELF '/lib/i686/libc.so.6' (0x40221000)
No debug information in ELF '/lib/i686/libm.so.6' (0x40354000)
No debug information in ELF '/lib/libdl.so.2' (0x40378000)
No debug information in ELF '/lib/ld-linux.so.2' (0x40000000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/wine/advapi32.dll.so' (0x406e3000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/wine/kernel32.dll.so' (0x40713000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/wine/gdi32.dll.so' (0x407e5000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/wine/ole32.dll.so' (0x4086b000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/wine/user32.dll.so' (0x408eb000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/wine/rpcrt4.dll.so' (0x40a41000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/wine/msvcrt.dll.so' (0x40a8b000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6' (0x40ad4000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/wine/x11drv.dll.so' (0x40b2a000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6' (0x403a7000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6' (0x40ba1000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6' (0x404c2000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6' (0x40bb8000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1' (0x40cb4000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/tls/libGLcore.so.1' (0x40d1f000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1' (0x4129c000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1' (0x412a5000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlcDef.so.2' (0x4001a000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2' (0x412ad000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so' (0x40024000)
No debug information in ELF '/usr/lib/wine/msi.dll.so' (0x41310000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'Z:\windows\C\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE' (0x30000000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\NTDLL.DLL' (0x40050000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL' (0x40740000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ADVAPI32.DLL' (0x406f0000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\GDI32.DLL' (0x40800000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\USER32.DLL' (0x40910000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\RPCRT4.DLL' (0x40a60000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OLE32.DLL' (0x40890000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSVCRT.DLL' (0x40aa0000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\X11DRV.DLL' (0x40b40000)
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSI.DLL' (0x41320000)
Unhandled exception: unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiProvideQualifiedComponentExW called in 32-bit code (0x4132d058).
In 32-bit mode.
0x4132d058 (MSI.DLL..data+0xb058 in msi.dll.so): subl $4,%esp
Wine-dbg>

and i am suppose to enter something under wine-dbg, so what do i do now?