Who is responsible to start up a Wineconsole

Andreas Mohr andi at rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de
Mon May 8 09:42:19 CDT 2006


Hi,

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:27:53PM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> on XP, Program->Execute->(../system32/)telnet.exe starts up a Console. 
> "wine telnet.exe" on the command line however silently terminates, as the
> call to GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo returns an empty
> LPCONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO structure.
> 
> Shouldn't wine start up some wineconsole in that circumstances as XP does?

Most likely telnet.exe has some console app PE header flag set (as opposed to
Win32 GUI app flag).

Probably the Wine loader needs to actually handle this flag and launch
wineconsole in this case if it's not already started within a console.

Andreas



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