I noticed tonight while looking for a different problem that wcmd doesn't handle batch file lines consisting of an external command with options but no space between the commandline and the option, e.g. start/wait foo.exe In this case it does not find start.exe. Win98 does find start.exe in this case, and wcmd clearly should, too. I had a quick look at wcmdmain.c, and did the obvious hack --- wcmdmain.c 5 Mar 2003 02:49:04 -0000 1.26 +++ wcmdmain.c 9 Apr 2003 06:05:40 -0000 @@ -558,7 +560,7 @@ int p = 0; case '\0': return; default: - while ((*s != '\0') && (*s != ' ')) { + while ((*s != '\0') && (*s != ' ') && (*s != '/')) { if (p == 0) *p1++ = *s++; else if (p == 1) *p2++ = *s++; else s++; It then realized that /wait was a qualifier, and passed the right thing to CreateProcess: F:\>start/wait xx.exe trace:exec:FindExecutableA File start, Dir - trace:exec:SHELL_FindExecutable start trace:exec:SHELL_FindExecutable SearchPathA returned non-zero trace:exec:SHELL_FindExecutable xlpFile=F:\start.exe,extension=.exe trace:exec:SHELL_FindExecutable .exe file trace:exec:SHELL_FindExecutable found F:\start.exe trace:exec:FindExecutableA returning F:\start.exe trace:process:CreateProcessA app (null) cmdline "start/wait xx.exe" but CreateProcess seems to have screwed up handling the /wait parameter: trace:process:CreateProcessA starting "F:\\start.exe" as Windows binary trace:process:PROCESS_InitWine starting process name="F:\\start.exe" file=0x4 argv[0]="start/wait" and that's the last we hear of /wait. This all works fine if we put a space before the /, in which case the log looks like: trace:process:CreateProcessA app (null) cmdline "start /wait xx.exe" trace:process:CreateProcessA starting "F:\\start.exe" as Windows binary trace:process:PROCESS_InitWine starting process name="F:\\start.exe" file=0x4 argv[0]="start" Hrmph. Guess I should add a print for argv[1] in PROCESS_InitWine. Or leave this to somebody who understands wcmd better than me :-) - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045