wcmd autoexec.bat?

[J. Grant]

Hello

I have been testing wcmd to automate some process I used to use on 
win98. However I can not find the autoexec.bat for wcmd?

Currently the wcmd shell starts up with no prompt, this has to be
corrected in my batch files.  prompt $p$g etc.

Wine seems to have 2 autoexec.bat's but does not seem to ever use them.
/var/lib/wine/autoexec.bat never seems to be executed. Neither is the
one I created in my fake c drive (/home/now3d/.wine/c/autoexec.bat)

Is this issue known? are their any workarounds?

Regards

JG

[Sylvain Petreolle]

> Currently the wcmd shell starts up with no prompt, this has to be
> corrected in my batch files.  prompt $p$g etc.

please update, this has been changed.

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[J. Grant]

Hello Sylvain,

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> > Currently the wcmd shell starts up with no prompt, this has to be
> > corrected in my batch files.  prompt $p$g etc.
>
> please update, this has been changed.

Thanks for the info, I just tried the 20030115 and that
prompt $p$g is default somewhere now. (is there a file it is set in?)

However, the autoexec.bat is stil not executed, I tested with the
following and with wcmd.

@echo off
echo test...
set TEST=true

I think this is a key feature, I would like to use this to set some
enviroment variables, currently I have to run a batch file manually each
time I start wcmd.  Could this be considered for implementation please?

Regards

JG

[davep]

On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 02:22, J. Grant wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have been testing wcmd to automate some process I used to use on
> win98. However I can not find the autoexec.bat for wcmd?
>
> Currently the wcmd shell starts up with no prompt, this has to be
> corrected in my batch files.  prompt $p$g etc.
>
> Wine seems to have 2 autoexec.bat's but does not seem to ever use them.
> /var/lib/wine/autoexec.bat never seems to be executed. Neither is the
> one I created in my fake c drive (/home/now3d/.wine/c/autoexec.bat)
>
> Is this issue known? are their any workarounds?

There is code in wcmdmain.c (line 113) to execute a batch file c:\autoexec.bat 
but it is commented out - it could be dangerous in a dual-boot machine to 
execute such a batch file by default.

Dave

[J. Grant]

Hi,

Sylvain Petreolle: davep email arrived here after, not sure why.
> There is code in wcmdmain.c (line 113) to execute a batch file c:\autoexec.bat 
> but it is commented out - it could be dangerous in a dual-boot machine to 
> execute such a batch file by default.

OK, this sounds like a good position to take, regarding c:\autoexec.bat.

What I require is environment variables, could be defined in a batch
file, or in some config similar to "System Properties -> Advanced ->
Environment Variables.." in NT5.

This could be implemented in several ways:

1. A "config" flag default false when installed to call c:\autoexec.bat.

2. A "config" block defining each variable

3. A c:\autoexec.wine file that was called when wine is run.

4. A ~/.wine/autoexec.bat file that would be empty by default and used
    by the user if they desired.  With a "config" true/false flag if 
necessary.

I believe suggestion four is most suitable.  I is safe from the chance 
of being executed by accident and could be used to setup essential 
environment variables.  Also sugestion one would mean we could enable 
the option to run this file in "config".  Would be simpler to implement, 
and would not possibly run a batch file from off the configured wine drives.

Cheers

JG