wcmd & start

[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