CMD: color and "interactive mode"?

iveand · Post by **iveand** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:40 am

My main purpose in trying Wine is to see if I can leverage several command-line-based utilities that a colleague has written.

I am testing with both Ubuntu and OSX (1.0.1 via MacPorts). After a successful install, I launch "wine cmd". From there I can launch one of the utilities (I added the folder where these exist to the PATH environment variable).

The utilities will launch correctly, but they use color and they are interactive. CMD won't show the color and then when it gets to the interactive piece it displays options (such as YN, for example), but will not accept any input that I give it. Typically on Windows, answering "Y" will then give control back to the program and it will go on. Here, however, a "Y" and <enter> will just leave me in the terminal with the cursor on the next line. This entry isn't transferred back to the executing program.

Any suggestions on how to use CMD to receive input when prompted? The color return would sure be nice too!

Thanks,

iveand

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:21 am

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:40 PM, iveand <[email protected]> wrote:

Any suggestions on how to use CMD to receive input when prompted? Â The color return would sure be nice too!

Try 'wine start cmd'

That opens a command-prompt window that supports a few things better
(or rather more Windows-like) than a unix terminal.

Gert

iveand · Post by **iveand** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:29 am

Indeed that fixed the problem. Color and "interaction" are supported via wine start cmd.

Thanks.

iveand