[Bug 56111] New: wine quickstart suggest people to do wine path/to/appname.exe witch is unsupported

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56111

Bug ID: 56111
           Summary: wine quickstart suggest people to do wine
                    path/to/appname.exe  witch is unsupported
           Product: WineHQ.org
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: www-unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User%27s_Guide#Quick_start mentions the following:
"Run Wine using the wine path/to/appname.exe command.

The first command you will run will be to install an application. Typically
something like wine /media/cdrom/setup.exe or the equivalent path might be used
to install an application from CD."

This is unsupported, people are supposed to first do a cd to the directory, and
then run wine, as discussed in this bug:

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56088

[Bug 56111] The Quickstart section of the user's guide suggests an invocation method that is not the recommended one.

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56111

Olivier F. R. Dierick  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
            Summary|wine quickstart suggest     |The Quickstart section of
                   |people to do wine           |the user's guide suggests
                   |path/to/appname.exe  witch  |an invocation method that
                   |is unsupported              |is not the recommended one.

--- Comment #1 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
Hello,

I understand that you're facing issues and that the replies you've got can be
confusing. You must be careful to not come to conclusions too quickly, though.

It's not unsupported: It's just not working for that application.

What the others and the guide failed to tell you, is that the invocation method
you have to use depends on how the application works (=windows application; not
Wine).

Wine cannot guess if you have to 'cd' into the directory first or not. Neither
can the developers or the users. You have to try, there is no one-way-fits-all
method.

That being said, it's true that the Quick start section suggests an invocation
method that is not the recommended one.
I took the liberty to change the bug title to reflect that, and also confirm
the issue.

I think that adding a note like "Note that you often need to set the working
directory to the directory containing the application executable first. (See
3.1.1 How to run Windows programs from the command line)" would be sufficient.

Regards.