Hey guys, I was browsing through the forums on franksworld.net and noticed this post: http://www.frankscorner.org/wineforum/viewthread.php?tid=158 Now that got me thinking, wine doesnt have any method to check .inf files right now and load an installer if it finds one on a CD. I was wondering, what do you guys think it would take to get that supported? I know that we would probably have to associate .inf files with wine and/or have some sort of a wine cd detector that actively monitors cd's for autorun files, but what would need to be added to wine itself to parse an autorun file, so that we could create the loader later? -Dustin
Doesnt exist that already ? http://freshmeat.net/projects/autorun/ http://parzelle.de/Linux/Applications/kautorun
Now that got me thinking, wine doesnt have any method to check .inf files right now and load an installer if it finds one on a CD.
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Question is, does it work with wine? If so, how? I must be blind because I dont see any documentation on how to set it up to load wine when it calls an exe. Plus the method I was speaking about above includes loading up a .inf file, not just autorun.exe... -Dustin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle(a)yahoo.fr> To: "Dustin Navea" <speeddymon(a)sbcglobal.net>; "Wine Developers" <wine-devel(a)winehq.com> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: Loading Autorun.inf on CD's
Doesnt exist that already ? http://freshmeat.net/projects/autorun/ http://parzelle.de/Linux/Applications/kautorun
Now that got me thinking, wine doesnt have any method to check .inf files right now and load an installer if it finds one on a CD.
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Dustin Navea wrote:
From: "Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle(a)yahoo.fr>
Doesnt exist that already ? http://freshmeat.net/projects/autorun/ http://parzelle.de/Linux/Applications/kautorun
Question is, does it work with wine? If so, how? I must be blind because I dont see any documentation on how to set it up to load wine when it calls an exe. Plus the method I was speaking about above includes loading up a .inf file, not just autorun.exe...
I have not seen this work either and definitely not with an .inf. Yes it would be cool and if you want to start a bug concerning it feel free. I am not that worried about it though. The way I see it is that most of this is not realy a wine problem but rather with setting up autorun so that it is able to understand what to do with an .inf file. I suppose another way to look at it might be that wcmd could/should be able to handle something like "wcmd autorun.inf". -- Tony Lambregts
If you want act in this way, I have something for you. This could help Paul Jones, who is searching how to "launch" *.msi installers. The better way we can handle this is a program who tries to open every document we give to it. A freeware utility exists in cygwin world and is called cygstart, using the existing registry. If we give it a .doc, it looks in HKCR and starts Worpad/Winword. If we tweak the registry of a .inf (winedefault.reg), we can ask it to launch a tiny program that will open the .inf and run the program specified.
I have not seen this work either and definitely not with an .inf. Yes it would be cool and if you want to start a bug concerning it feel free. I am not that worried about it though. The way I see it is that most of
this is not realy a wine problem but rather with setting up autorun so that it is able to understand what to do with an .inf file. I suppose
another way to look at it might be that wcmd could/should be able to handle something like "wcmd autorun.inf".
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If you want act in this way, I have something for you. This could help Paul Jones, who is searching how to "launch" *.msi installers. The better way we can handle this is a program who tries to open every document we give to it. A freeware utility exists in cygwin world and is called cygstart, using the existing registry. If we give it a .doc, it looks in HKCR and starts Worpad/Winword. If we tweak the registry of a .inf (winedefault.reg), we can ask it to launch a tiny program that will open the .inf and run the program specified.
I have not seen this work either and definitely not with an .inf. Yes it would be cool and if you want to start a bug concerning it feel free. I am not that worried about it though. The way I see it is that most of
this is not realy a wine problem but rather with setting up autorun so that it is able to understand what to do with an .inf file. I suppose
another way to look at it might be that wcmd could/should be able to handle something like "wcmd autorun.inf".
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