cannot execute iexplore.exe when I create a symbolic link to it

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Published on 2011-11-18T01:35:55Z Indexed on 2011/11/18 2:03 UTC
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I do something like:

$ ln -s '/home/deostroll/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe' /usr/bin/iexplore

I am expecting that at the shell I can just type the following and expect the internet explorer browser window to show up:

$ pwd
<where ever>
$ iexplore

But instead I get the following error message:

wine: cannot find L"Z:\\usr\\bin\\iexplore."

What am I doing wrong?

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