wcmd & start

[Stefan Leichter]

Hello,

i found a problem during running a batch file. The problem is the start 
command. Win9x has it as separate comand (as we currently have it in wine). 
The Nt based Windows Versions have it as builtin comand in cmd.

Wcmd does not know the start command because the start command ist installed 
in windows/comand directory, but the directory ist not in the path known by 
wcmd.

An easy fix might be to add the windows/comand directory to the path variable 
on startup of wcmd.

Is the fine for everyone? If not please suggest a better solution.

Bye Stefan

[Eric Pouech]

Stefan Leichter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i found a problem during running a batch file. The problem is the start 
> command. Win9x has it as separate comand (as we currently have it in wine). 
> The Nt based Windows Versions have it as builtin comand in cmd.
>
> Wcmd does not know the start command because the start command ist installed 
> in windows/comand directory, but the directory ist not in the path known by 
> wcmd.
>
> An easy fix might be to add the windows/comand directory to the path variable 
> on startup of wcmd.
>
> Is the fine for everyone? If not please suggest a better solution.

as we get but report for programs not working because the get fooled by 
wine's start.exe (which shouldn't exist on latest NT), another way would 
be to integrate the start exec as a wcmd command
you'd kill two birds with one stone
incidentally you would break Win9x programs requiring start outside of 
the command handler...
A+

[paul]

Eric Pouech wrote:
> Stefan Leichter wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i found a problem during running a batch file. The problem is the 
> > start command. Win9x has it as separate comand (as we currently have 
> > it in wine). The Nt based Windows Versions have it as builtin comand 
> > in cmd.
> > Wcmd does not know the start command because the start command ist 
> > installed in windows/comand directory, but the directory ist not in 
> > the path known by wcmd.
> >
> > An easy fix might be to add the windows/comand directory to the path 
> > variable on startup of wcmd.
> >
> > Is the fine for everyone? If not please suggest a better solution.
>
> as we get but report for programs not working because the get fooled by 
> wine's start.exe (which shouldn't exist on latest NT), another way would 
> be to integrate the start exec as a wcmd command
> you'd kill two birds with one stone
> incidentally you would break Win9x programs requiring start outside of 
> the command handler...
> A+

A related problem with older Win3.11/win95 apps is they set values in 
the autoexec.bat and to run Delphi 1.0 or borland BC++4.5 I have to 
start wcmd in a terminal the run then autoexec to set the paths and 
start delphi or bcw.
It would be nice to allow setting winecfg to allow some applications to 
run c:autoexec.bat prior to running like you do with dll overrides.
Paul R.

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 3:52:07 PM, paul wrote:
> Eric Pouech wrote:
> > Stefan Leichter wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > i found a problem during running a batch file. The problem is the 
> > > start command. Win9x has it as separate comand (as we currently have 
> > > it in wine). The Nt based Windows Versions have it as builtin comand 
> > > in cmd.
> > > Wcmd does not know the start command because the start command ist 
> > > installed in windows/comand directory, but the directory ist not in 
> > > the path known by wcmd.
> > >
> > > An easy fix might be to add the windows/comand directory to the path 
> > > variable on startup of wcmd.
> > >
> > > Is the fine for everyone? If not please suggest a better solution.
> >
> > as we get but report for programs not working because the get fooled by
> > wine's start.exe (which shouldn't exist on latest NT), another way would
> > be to integrate the start exec as a wcmd command
> > you'd kill two birds with one stone
> > incidentally you would break Win9x programs requiring start outside of
> > the command handler...
> > A+
>
> A related problem with older Win3.11/win95 apps is they set values in 
> the autoexec.bat and to run Delphi 1.0 or borland BC++4.5 I have to 
> start wcmd in a terminal the run then autoexec to set the paths and 
> start delphi or bcw.
> It would be nice to allow setting winecfg to allow some applications to
> run c:autoexec.bat prior to running like you do with dll overrides.
> Paul R.

I don't think that's the way it works on winNT. It does ignore the
content of the c:\autoexec.bat. So does Wine.

Vitaliy

[Mike McCormack]

Eric Pouech wrote:
> > An easy fix might be to add the windows/comand directory to the path 
> > variable on startup of wcmd.
> >
> > Is the fine for everyone? If not please suggest a better solution.
>
> as we get but report for programs not working because the get fooled by 
> wine's start.exe (which shouldn't exist on latest NT), another way would 
> be to integrate the start exec as a wcmd command
> you'd kill two birds with one stone
> incidentally you would break Win9x programs requiring start outside of 
> the command handler...

Actually, if there's a start.exe in the current directory in Windows, 
that "start" will be run rather than the builtin start.

If you're going to change the way it works, make sure that you handle 
that case correctly.  You might also want to check what happens if 
there's a start.exe in the PATH.

Mike