so for, sheesh, ~30 years, I've just "borrowed" .exe/.com files from System32 (and now SysWOW64), the same way we borrow native .dlls as-needed for a given winebottle...
but given we're approaching wine 10, has this changed any? I am embarrassed to admit I'm not keeping up with wine as much as I used to... the internal command logic works fine, it's in the calling external programs where it's a mess... and even this has caveats; while you can put a native find, findstr, more, choice, etc. down and they'll run fine, other things, like mklink, which appears to work, won't throw an errorlevel, but doesn't function either, I suppose because the underlying file system isn't NTFS, and there's no instruction translation to linux filesystems?
I suppose we'll get there one day, (or not), it's the way of things... just that windows VMs take up a lot of RAM to have running for things I would rather fire off a wineconsole instance for.
I know, I know, if you really need Windows, then run Windows. But like the rest of you, I'm trying to avoid that.
Thanks for reading.
