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WCMD - A Command-Line Interface for WINE
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Copyright (C) 1999 D Pickles (davep@nugate.demon.co.uk)
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Open Source software published under the Wine Licence and Warranty.
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This is an Alpha version and is very much "work in progress".
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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- Sources
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- A Makefile for compiling with LibWine. Build Wine with "-enable-dll" first.
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- A Makefile for Borland C++ (needs editing for directories).
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WHAT'S MISSING
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- Redirection, shell parameters and pipes
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- Command-line qualifiers for most builtin commands
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- MOVE command (plus the batch-only ones)
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- Wildcards and relative paths in COPY and RENAME
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- Set functionality in DATE, TIME, ATTRIB, SET, LABEL
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- Full internationalisation of the text (and commands?).
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WHAT DOESN'T WORK
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- At present it is not possible to launch Windows GDI programs from the command
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line. This is result of the way the CreateProcess() API call is implemented in
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Wine, and will be fixed in a later Wine release.
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- The ATTRIB command reports all files having their Archive flag set, and the
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READONLY setting depends on the Unix file permissions. All other flags are
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always clear. The Wine attributes API calls map to the Unix stat() function
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which cannot handle the other attributes available in DOS.
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- Date/timestamps of files in the DIR listing are shown using the current
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locale. As there is AFAIK no way to set the locale, they will always appear in
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US format.
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- Line editing and command recall doesn't work due to missing functionality in
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Wine.
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- File sizes in the DIR function are all given in 32 bits, though totals and
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free space are computed to 64 bits.
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- DIR/S fails if there is no matching file in the starting directory, ie
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"DIR C:\TEMP\*.c /S" doesn't work if there is no file matching *.c in C:\TEMP
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but one does exist in a lower directory.
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- Copy, rename, move, need the source and destination to be specified fully
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with an absolute or relative path but no wildcards or partial filenames.
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- Simple batch files work, ie a list of commands as they would be typed. However
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invoking a batch file from within another invokes the CALL function, control
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returns to the calling batch file when the subfile exits.
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WINE OR WIN32 BINARY?
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Wcmd can be built as a Wine binary, or (using a Win32 compiler) as a Win32 .EXE
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image. The Wine binary is simpler to invoke from the U**x command line or from
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a GUI such as KDE, however it is not possible to invoke a second shell using the
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"WCMD /C filename" syntax. Conversely a Win32 application can be invoked from a
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Win32 GUI such as Program Manager but that needs starting under Wine first.
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