[Bug 3638] pif's with batch files

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3638

--- Comment #16 from Mark K <markk(a)clara.co.uk> 2011-12-10 13:18:39 CST ---
The installers for several CD-ROM titles published by GSP have a similar PIF
file issue, but it's slightly different. Titles I checked so far are 20000
Pictures volumes 1 and 2, Business Cards and Discovering Endangered Wildlife.
[Failing to run the batch files for these is not serious; they would just
delete temporary files created by the installer.]

Based on the PIF file contents, the installers seem to be created using a
program called PC-Install. The PIF file invokes COMMAND.COM instead of
specifying a batch file directly.

I'll attach a +winevdm trace but the most significant lines are these:

trace:winevdm:main GetCommandLine = 'winevdm.exe --app-name
"C:\users\mark\Temp\dosshell.pif" C:\users\mark\Temp\dosshell.pif /C
C:\users\mark\Temp\~0000.bat'
...
trace:winevdm:read_pif_file header: program "COMMAND.COM" title "PC-Install DOS
shell          " startdir "" params ""
...
winevdm: can't exec 'C:\users\mark\Temp\dosshell.pif': file not found

In this case C:\users\mark\Temp\dosshell.pif does exist, so the message Wine
prints is slightly misleading. It should be a simple patch to check if
COMMAND.COM is specified in a PIF file and print a similar message to the .bat
file case.

-- 
Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the
above URL to reply.
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are watching all bug changes.