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how do I use Wine?

Ok, on my Deluxe Linux OS 6.5 box it says that it has Wine (the software that allows you to run more Windows applications directly under Linux) I tried to use it: I typed at the terminal emulation thing:

CD /MNT/DOS_hda
CD /TOMB/
WINE TOMB.EXE

and it says that it's not an executable. How do I use Wine? Does it work?

v_likic

From what I gathered Wine is still far from working
reliably.

Try VMware, www.vmware.com. VMware is impressive,
and would let you run Windows from inside linux- whole
Windows appears just as an X-windows application.

tibori

Which directory is the wine executable in? If you know where it is type the whole path i.e. : /usr/bin/executablename tomb.exe. What's probably happening is that the path of the wine executable is not defined as one of your path, so the shell doesn't know where to execute it from. If you're in the directory that the executable is in you may need to use the syntax ./wine tomb.exe to tell it to run from the current directory.
I agree with v_likic however that wine is still primitive and has only been tested with primitive apps, you probably won't be able to run Tombraider on it.

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jomyster

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Yeah that's great advice, Now I can use it, but I'm pretty limited. I'll follow v_likic advice and get Vmware.