[wellylug] Re: Trying to locate Wine on my system

[Joseph Booth - Project Services]

Arnim,
A minor correction/ explanation
I didn't mean wine, as the program you need to be in the same directory 
as - I was referring to whatever Windoze .exe program you were running 
with wine.
I assumed in my comments that wine had been found at that point, but 
cheers for the extra explanation on how to find it, and hope you 
managed to get it going Colin.

> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:56:24 +1200 (NZST)
> From: Arnim Littek <arnim at med-dev.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Re: Trying to locate Wine on my system
<snip>
>> It usually helps if you are in the same directory as the program you
>> are running.
>
> Umm.  Bad deal.  If you have a single "." in your path, which lets you
> execute from the current working directory, your machine
> has a known security risk...  Putting the present working directory in
> your path is a bad deal as soon as you use your Linux/Unix box for
> anything more than a personal workstation.   If you want to execute a
> file from the local directory, first remove the single . from the
> path, and then time
>
>   ./wine
>
> or whatever the file is called.  Optimising your path is not something
> I'd want to cover in an email.
>
--
Joseph Booth