MS-DOS Batch File Commands

[johnaaronrose]

I'm trying to get the AndroidSDK going under Wine. There are problems
with the MS-DOS commands (for example, the /D option with the 'For'
command and the use of options to apply to the Path environment varaible
(to prevent space being used as a delimiter between path folders) it
uses in the supplied batch files it calls from a supplied .exe file.

I presume that the cmd.exe (in Wine's Windows32) folder is the program
used to run MS-DOS batch files. Could anyone point me to a definitive list
of commands and their parameters that Wine's MS-DOS uses & which work for batch files?

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 18:22, johnaaronrose <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm trying to get the AndroidSDK going under Wine. There are problems
with the MS-DOS commands (for example, the /D option with the 'For'
command and the use of options to apply to the Path environment varaible

'for' support is incomplete/buggy in current wine

I presume that the cmd.exe (in Wine's Windows32) folder is the program
used to run MS-DOS batch files. Could anyone point me to a definitive list
of commands and their parameters that Wine's MS-DOS uses & which work for batch files?

You can run 'wine cmd' then 'help' or 'help <command>' to see a list
of commands. The documentation may be lacking, though.

For a list of builtin commands supported, you'd have to look at the
source, e.g. from
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/t ... ograms/cmd
(and run the cmd test suite).

You can find the current bug list for component 'cmd' with
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quer ... ponent=cmd

[vitamin]

There are problems with the MS-DOS commands

Firs of all THEY ARE NOT ms-dos commands! DOS never had "for" command, it's a Windows addition.

What you are talking about HAS NOTHING TO DO with ms-dos. That "black screen" is a console (poor MS' implementation of real *NIX terminal). And commands are "batch commands". In *NIX word they are called shell command or shell scripting.

Anyway, Wine's cmd (the program that interprets those commands) is incomplete, as prior user said. File bug.

[perryh]

"vitamin" <[email protected]> wrote:

DOS never had "for" command, it's a Windows addition.

Baloney. DOS 6 definitely had a for command. It may not have
been in DOS 2, and may even have been added somewhere in the
DOS 3.x or later timeframe for the sake of Windows 2.x or 3.x,
but I used it in MS-DOS prior to the release of Windows 95.

[vitamin]

Baloney. DOS 6 definitely had a for command.

You right, it's been there for a long time. It's been a while since I used DOS...

[DanKegel]

I think the Android SDK uses features of the for command that
were not present in DOS, so you're both right.