[Wine] Problems with the console functions?

[James McKenzie]

Reijo T Sund wrote:
> Dear Wine-experts,
>
> I've tested the functionality of simple CUI-applications with
> wineconsole (Wine-0.9.50, Ubuntu 7.10). Somewhat surprisingly,
> there seems to be numerous major flaws in the current
> implementation.
>
> The best (worst?) example is the widely distributed sample code
> ("Console: Demonstration of the Console Functions") available in
> the MSDN library (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa263818.aspx).
>
> With this code it is easy to replicate the "missing output" bug 
> (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404) and demonstrate several
> other previously unreported bugs and crashes. In fact, these problems
> seem to prevent the sound running of virtually all CUI-applications
> utilizing console functions.
>   
Please add your results to this bug and vote on it.
> Should there be one big bug report for this sample console application
> or a separate report for each defect?
>   
One bug/defect -> One report.  Attach logs/output.  And please do a
through search of
Bugzilla before reporting. 
> I also wonder if someone else could test whether these potential
> problems are real, and confirm that no simple solutions are available..
>   
Please add as much information to reproduce in the bug reports.  If they
require downloading
large packages, please be aware that some are bandwidth restricted. 

> The actual sources are available in the full PSDK sample package 
> downloadable from: 
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/vstudio60pro/Utility/6.0/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/vs6samples.exe.
>
> As that is a quite large file (131Mb), the example of interest extracted
> from the package is temporarily available at 
> http://www.helsinki.fi/~sund/sdk_WinUI_console.exe,
> or in a zipped form at http://www.helsinki.fi/~sund/console_vs6.zip.
> An older (vs97) version of the same SDK sample that includes a compiled
> binary can be found at http://www.helsinki.fi/~sund/console_vs97.zip.
>   
Please put these links in the bug reports.  Not many are going to
download possibly damaging code
from your site, however.  The sources maybe all that are needed.

James McKenzie