[Wine] Re: Running legacy batch files

Bamm wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sun Jun 8 22:55:13 CDT 2008


oiaohm wrote:
> Wine does have a cmd that can run some.   But big but Bamm 
> 
> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/dosbatch.html  << Rewrite is normally better.  Bat is a massively messy language.
> 
> Then there is the evil of the dual format bat bash file.
> http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2007/06/11/microsoft-batch-file-meets-bash-shellscript
> 
> There are even better ways of doing that.
> 
> The following is incorrect.
> 
> > The Win32 console programs won't run in DOSBox/DOSEmu/etc
> 
> http://www.japheth.de/HX.html  HX extender for dos.
> 
> Still does not change the fact of course.   What dos programs what windows programs.   Do they have *nix replacement.   Converted scripts will work on all processors if they have *nix replacements including inside some nokia phones.    Also script will most likely work back on windows threw one means or another.  cygwin, andlinux ,openlina.... List goes on.

Interesting links! Thanks oiaohm! I'll be studying them. :)







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