Hello,
when I start wine for the exe program of the zip in the link https://hp.giesselink.com/HPIL/ilper2.4.zip
I can access the HDRIVE1.DAT with that program (which was from the same zip expanded into a directory; the same directory where the exe is).
If I copy that file on my Debian11 64bits ext4 home partition area Downloads, and rename it, and place it back at the same area of HDRIVE1.DAT, then the newly named file is not accessible and an error appear:
If anybody has an idea where it is coming from and why a copied file have a different behaviour than the original file (the original file has no error and can be read)?.

Wine understands unix file names. I never try making up windoze filenames, like this one: env WINEPREFIX="/home/dec/.wine" /usr/bin/wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix /home/dec/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Desktop/English\ -\ Watchtower\ Library.lnk[/CODE] It's also worth saying that Desktop & Downloads in your wine dir are symlinks to the same things in your home dir.

That said, let's debug your filename
The characters in red should never appear in a windows filename, which should be a letter for the drive, followed by directories & filename. You have two drive names.

Why not modify the drive in wine. Can you?

I get that a lot too.
It doesn't get in the way.

In folder
/home/dec/.wine/dosdevices/

there is a symlink
c: ==> /home/dec/.wine/drive_c/

there is a symlink
z: ==> /

Why is z: pointing to / ?

If you want change it to /home or /home/dec (or whatever your username is)

Wine takes filenames in M$ & Unix formats, and every user's individual .wine dir is ~/.wine. So Z:\\ replaces the leading '/' on a unix filename and lets you get out of the homedir and into the linux filesystem - the dvd drive, for instance. so "wine z:\\mnt\\cdrom\\setup.exe" = "wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe"

OK, that explains it.
If I change the Z; symlink and make it point to /home or /home/my_user_name, the WINE messages disappear but I put it back to the way it was since sometimes, I install things from DVD.

I'm sure you can point one of the broken symlinks in ~/.wine/dosdevices to your homedir without doing any damage. And you can probably mark this solved.

I cannot remember why Z was set to point to /. I must have a look again on my previous wine installation.
How to change Z pointing to "/home/user_me" ?

Try post #4.

So far, all ok.
Starting the program with
with in an entry field dont make the errors appearing. Looks like it work.
Thanks to everybody for the advices.

It won't like that, I imagine. Does this

do any better?

Sorry but it does.

works. It starts.

dont work. Output: