Link or rename wcmd.exe to cmd.exe?

[Dan Kegel]

chris kcat wrote:
>Not sure if this is the best place to bring this up, but I'm not sure
>it's "ready". The problem is it runs through the terminal the Wine was exec'd
>from. When Wine is run from the desktop manager's menu, or started in the
>background (eg. wine foo.exe &), if wcmd is subsequently exec'd, it will
>become completely unuseable since it has no input, and potentially no output,
>terminal. It then has to be killed through the kill or killall command.

Have you ever seen this be a problem in the real world?

>To be "ready", wouldn't it need to open up its own terminal window for input
>and output in Wine's desktop space (eg. the virtual desktop if it's in use,
>or the standard desktop)?

No.  That would destroy its usefulness in background applications.
- Dan