| 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. | |
| This is an Alpha version and is very much "work in progress". | |
| 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). | |
| 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?). | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |