From Wine-Wiki

[edit] Introduction

what is a "winefile"??

H. Bostick: Winefile is an application included with Wine; it's a file manager. Many users don't realize that it exists, like regedit and notepad, which you can run with the commands wine regedit and wine notepad. [...]In any case, just run

winefile

in a terminal or Run dialog to check it out.

R. Klazes: Wine happily launches Linux app's. I can launch nautilus by double clicking in winefile. Wine must be able to find it, so it must be on a simulated dos drive (the default Z: is enough) and if you don't want to hard code the path add it to the Wine PATH.

In Dec 08 one in the wine user forum described it as: an incomplete replacement for the win3.x filemanager winfile.

[edit] Forum Comments

A. Julliard [May 06] : If you run winefile you should even see the new drives appear and disappear as the devices are mounted/unmounted. Note that it requires pretty recent versions of the kernel and of the HAL libraries. There are a lot of broken setups out there, so if it doesn't work for you it's not my fault ;-) M. Hearn: any HAL hotplug events will be magically handled correctly. For instance, run Notepad, look at the file open dialog box. Close it, plug in a USB key, and do File->Open again. You should see a drive letter corresponding to the key. wine archive