Re: wine question - BAT2EXE?
Frank Bax wrote: As you can see from my posts (wine and qemu); I am open to any solution that will allow me to run this app with performance approaching (preferably faster than) native P3-600. I'll donate C$100 to OpenBSD if it works before year-end - it's not much, but its more than US$100 for the first time in +30 years. Shucks, I'll probably make the donation anyway; after all, the cost of a cdrom has been constant for a couple of years now. Holy screen savers Batman!! Thank you Jona Joachim for posting a question answered in August. Thank you Peter N. M. Hansteen for answering the same question twice. Thanks especially to Richard Toohey for keeping me thinking about this issue off-list over the past few days (and the trip down memory lane); I could have easily missed todays emails as well. I missed the initial thread discussing X11 speed on Lenovo laptop. Here I thought that problem had something to do with the fact I was using vesa driver and that it was unrelated to qemu performance. I boot bsd.mp with acpi enabled and the data conversion is completed in 1:50 (down from 6:00); my target was 1:20 (speed on native P3-600). Close enough! I just donated $100 to the project. What a great team! Frank
Re: wine question - BAT2EXE?
wine-990225 does not run BAT or COM files; only EXE files. There are two problems with: wine command.com /c progam.bat wine does not execute COM and expects every argument to be executable. I've seen some references to cmd and wcmd (which seem to be wine internal replacement for command.com); but as near as I can tell, this is a feature added in later versions of wine; because I can't get it to work either. My plan is to create a BAT file containing cd program.exe And convert to an EXE file, thereby (hopefully) avoiding problem in initial post. It is not necessary for the BAT2EXE program itself to work on wine (I can run that native); but I need the resulting EXE to run on wine. I've used OpenBSD for hosting (apache/mail) since 2000; and last year we setup an OpenBSD router in the house (with wifi even). I just moved from my (7 yr old) P3-600 laptop with Win98 to a new laptop with OpenBSD in August. I tried OpenBSD desktop several times over those years; but kept switching back - OpenBSD has come a LONG way with desktop support in recent years! As you can see from my posts (wine and qemu); I am open to any solution that will allow me to run this app with performance approaching (preferably faster than) native P3-600. I'll donate C$100 to OpenBSD if it works before year-end - it's not much, but its more than US$100 for the first time in +30 years. Shucks, I'll probably make the donation anyway; after all, the cost of a cdrom has been constant for a couple of years now. Frank ropers wrote: Sorry if this is nosy and sounds stupid, but I'm intrigued: Why would you need your .bat to become a .exe file? Hiding your code is obviously not a valid reason, or you wouldn't be asking this on the OpenBSD mailing list. On 05/10/2007, Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does know of a BAT2EXE program that produces an EXE which works under wine? First hit on google bat2exe wine indicates there is one that works on Linux (written in delphi), but the link is broken. I've tried several. Some actually create COM (not EXE) files which wine won't run. Others create EXE files that crash in various ways under wine. Frank Frank Bax wrote: I installed wine-990225p0 from packages on 4.1 and can run simple programs like sol and notepad. I have an old program I'm trying to run; but this program cannot find it's own files unless the current working directory is set to the directory where software was installed. It seems more recent wine versions support 'bat' files which would solve this; but this doesn't seem to work in this version. When I try: wine c://program.exe the software complains that it cannot open LIBS\FOXTOOLS.FLL This file is found at C:\\LIBS\FOXTOOLS.FLL Is there a way to run something like this on wine 990225?: cd program.exe If this is not workable on 990225; do current wine versions work on OpenBSD? Frank
Re: wine question - BAT2EXE?
I just went back to your first post: On 05/10/2007, Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does know of a BAT2EXE program that produces an EXE which works under wine? First hit on google bat2exe wine indicates there is one that works on Linux (written in delphi), but the link is broken. Well, you didn't try hard enough. True, the first Google hit http://www.rohitab.com/discuss/lofiversion/index.php/t10621.html shows this link: http://www.home.no/im-zenith/prg/bat2exe.exe and that returns a 404, but just with a little URL hacking you will find: http://www.home.no/im-zenith/program/ and there's your bat2exe program. Dude just reoranised his website. He must have missed the Tim BL memo: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI ;-) -ropers
Re: wine question - BAT2EXE?
Does know of a BAT2EXE program that produces an EXE which works under wine? First hit on google bat2exe wine indicates there is one that works on Linux (written in delphi), but the link is broken. I've tried several. Some actually create COM (not EXE) files which wine won't run. Others create EXE files that crash in various ways under wine. Frank Frank Bax wrote: I installed wine-990225p0 from packages on 4.1 and can run simple programs like sol and notepad. I have an old program I'm trying to run; but this program cannot find it's own files unless the current working directory is set to the directory where software was installed. It seems more recent wine versions support 'bat' files which would solve this; but this doesn't seem to work in this version. When I try: wine c://program.exe the software complains that it cannot open LIBS\FOXTOOLS.FLL This file is found at C:\\LIBS\FOXTOOLS.FLL Is there a way to run something like this on wine 990225?: cd program.exe If this is not workable on 990225; do current wine versions work on OpenBSD? Frank
Re: wine question - BAT2EXE?
Sorry if this is nosy and sounds stupid, but I'm intrigued: Why would you need your .bat to become a .exe file? Hiding your code is obviously not a valid reason, or you wouldn't be asking this on the OpenBSD mailing list. On 05/10/2007, Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does know of a BAT2EXE program that produces an EXE which works under wine? First hit on google bat2exe wine indicates there is one that works on Linux (written in delphi), but the link is broken. I've tried several. Some actually create COM (not EXE) files which wine won't run. Others create EXE files that crash in various ways under wine. Frank Frank Bax wrote: I installed wine-990225p0 from packages on 4.1 and can run simple programs like sol and notepad. I have an old program I'm trying to run; but this program cannot find it's own files unless the current working directory is set to the directory where software was installed. It seems more recent wine versions support 'bat' files which would solve this; but this doesn't seem to work in this version. When I try: wine c://program.exe the software complains that it cannot open LIBS\FOXTOOLS.FLL This file is found at C:\\LIBS\FOXTOOLS.FLL Is there a way to run something like this on wine 990225?: cd program.exe If this is not workable on 990225; do current wine versions work on OpenBSD? Frank -- www.ropersonline.com