Loading Autorun.inf on CD's

[Dustin Navea]

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

[Sylvain Petreolle]

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]

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" 
To: "Dustin Navea" ; "Wine Developers"

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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[Tony Lambregts]

Dustin Navea wrote:
> From: "Sylvain Petreolle"
> > 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".

[Sylvain Petreolle]

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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[Sylvain Petreolle]

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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