Commandline tools broke between Sept 21 and 20011108?

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Mon Dec 10 22:59:56 CST 2001


lawson_whitney at juno.com wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
> 
> > There is no such program in Debian's wine, and google shows no
> > hits before 28 Nov 2001.  Guess it's a new thing, and I'll have to
> > grab the CVS sources, sigh.
> 
> Yes, it is rather new, but the wcmd program is already using it and it
> has made the man page.
> >
> > I sure hope it doesn't pop up a new window.  All I wanted was
> > a simple way to run a commandline tool, with no fuss...
> 
> Sorry, that seems to be exactly what it does.  Maybe you can get some
> relief by setting "Graphics Driver" = "ttydrv" instead, but I don't have
> any windose colsole apps to test if that works.  You know about
> WINEPREFIX if you need different config files for different apps, right?

Yes, I've been doing that for some time, so I can
use this app when X is not available.  

I'm ok with my old sources for the moment; probably I'll wait until
the next Wine release that Debian picks up, which should have wineconsole.
I'm not optimistic... maybe I should write a new wrapper like wine and
wineconsole, called winejustafriggincommandlineapp :-)

- Dan




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