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The Dreamhost web hosting thread below was started by Cobra on 2009-04-25 18:50:53:

Post Reply? Hello, I recently purchased a license for Zoomify Enterprise (zoomify.com) for a project I’m working on. I need to integrate their image converter into my website. The converter came as an executable as well as a CGI-BIN application compiled for Win & Mac + source (so I can compile it for UNIX, Linux, etc). Preferably, I want to run the converter through a PHP file. I first tried running the .exe via: exec(”wine home/user/url/converter.exe {switch statments}”); But it hasn’t worked for me yet. Since I’m not familiar with Linux, a good question to ask is - is wine included in debian? If not, do I need to (or can I even) install wine? If using the .exe isn’t an option, I’ll have to compile the CGI-BIN application’s source for Linux…another thing I’m not familiar with. Help with this would be much appreciated if this is what it comes down to. I’m really out of my element here - PHP is my forte - so any guidance would be excellent. Dave

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