| WCMD - A Command-Line Interface for WINE |
| Copyright (C) 1999 D Pickles (davep@nugate.demon.co.uk) |
| 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 |
| - Sources |
| - A Makefile for compiling with LibWine. Build Wine with "-enable-dll" first. |
| - A Makefile for Borland C++ (needs editing for directories). |
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| WHAT'S MISSING |
| - Pipes |
| - Command-line qualifiers for most builtin commands |
| - Wildcards and relative paths in COPY, MOVE and RENAME |
| - Set functionality in DATE, TIME, ATTRIB, LABEL |
| - Full internationalisation of the text (and commands?). |
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| WHAT DOESN'T WORK |
| - The ATTRIB command reports all files having their Archive flag set, and the |
| READONLY setting depends on the Unix file permissions. All other flags are |
| always clear. The Wine attributes API calls map to the Unix stat() function |
| which cannot handle the other attributes available in DOS. |
| - Date/timestamps of files in the DIR listing are shown using the current |
| locale. As there is AFAIK no way to set the locale, they will always appear in |
| US format. |
| - Line editing and command recall doesn't work due to missing functionality in |
| Wine. |
| - File sizes in the DIR function are all given in 32 bits, though totals and |
| free space are computed to 64 bits. |
| - DIR/S fails if there is no matching file in the starting directory, ie |
| "DIR C:\TEMP\*.c /S" doesn't work if there is no file matching *.c in C:\TEMP |
| but one does exist in a lower directory. |
| - Copy, rename, move, need the source and destination to be specified fully |
| with an absolute or relative path but no wildcards or partial filenames. |
| - The IF ERRORLEVEL construct is not implemented. |
| - Redirection is implemented as a command line is parsed. This means that ">" |
| and "<" symbols cannot appear in command arguments even within quotes. |
| - In many cases parsing and syntax checking is less rigorous than DOS. Thus an |
| existing DOS batch file will probably run unchanged under Wcmd but the reverse |
| may not be the case. |
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| WINE OR WIN32 BINARY? |
| Wcmd can be built as a Wine binary, or (using a Win32 compiler) as a Win32 .EXE |
| image. The Wine binary is simpler to invoke from the U**x command line or from |
| a GUI such as KDE, however it is not possible to invoke a second shell using the |
| "WCMD /C filename" syntax. Conversely a Win32 application can be invoked from a |
| Win32 GUI such as Program Manager but that needs starting under Wine first. |
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