Hy,
the pshell is now commezial, but it's a good idea to make a command-promt for wine.. , and i think other users wish a commandline in wine to clean execute dosprogramms in a window who can kill the exec-windows-cmd-line is hang it.. the same is, a clear room for dosprogramms who can insert explizit variables and kan take a autoexec and config.sys to load drivers for the meulating hardware in wine.. humm, why not use a autoexec.nt and config.nt... or autoexec.wn and config.wn to configurating the dosvariables in wine and to get ram,exetendet and other memory and set it in config.wn (ram=128m ; ext=640k) and make for it a "mem" to show the memory-config ... and why not use the wineserver as a tsr-progamm to start with the windowmanager to load the dos-command in backround and if start a win32-program it's start mutch faster if had start the wineserver by User and Windowmanager and have a stiky-icon in the Systemtray in KDE and Gnome or other WM's how Openoffice run-helper or how name is it ;) So can you load dos-16Bit cmd and the Win32-labary in backround and if execute a Win32-Program can now faster run and take faster the entrys in registry and dll's and have/can set the "SET" cariables explizite for Win32 and dos-16bit... wit the winecfg can adjust the "autoexec.bat" and "config.sys" for Dos (Wine-dos-emulation) and can use a computeremulation via bios.bin and this can load the io.sys,msdos.sys,config.sys,command.com(or boot.bin), and autoexec.bat for make explizite variables in wine-enviroment. Let not boot wine with "wine" , let start wine with wineserver and the first step let be, configuring the wine, without start the wineserver, over winecfg and make more entrys, how manny ram, memory and so, C:-entry who the user like and not in the hidden .wine-dir... bah... i make the first step to adjusting the C: Folder to my Useraccount under /home/user/win_c, it's better if a want move files and save files in my Win32-folder... the best Steps be, :
1. winecfg - without start wine/wineserver - Configuring my Wine explizit 2. Set my C: / WineFolder, where i want ! eg: where the USER want , and other Folders, Net-Folders,CD-Rom and so.. 3. Set the variables, how manny ram, ext. Mem and the 640k (you now what i mean?) the cmd, dosenviroment,path-variables, Sound and other variables what Wine need.
4. Now, start the Wine with wineserver who make a little systray-icon to be in the backround as tsr-programm/-wineserver- as dos16bit-win32-libary-and-enviroment-server ;)
5. and now we have all win32-eviroment what we need, DDE, Ole32 and the other programms who need still running can still running and be in the backround.
A singelklick or dubbleklick on the wineserver-icon in the systray let popopen the winecfg and with rightklick a list were can be the controlpanel ;)
this constellation is good for reactos too, i think... ;)
regards Blacky