Eric wrote:
N2: one could try running wineconsole USER backend with ttydrv instead of x11drv, but that's out of the scope of this (maybe for Dimi's fun projects list
ttydrv is not as far out as all that. I use ttydrv now to run commandline windows programs that output to stdout.
I *cannot* use the current Debian wine, because *it uses curses*. Curses renders commandline windows programs useless. Imagine a program that outputs two lines of text. With Wine switching to the alternate text screen on entry, and switching back on exit, *you never see those lines of text, ever*. And with those escape characters gunking up the output, you certainly can't pipe the output of wine running that console program to a file and get anything sensible. Please help make wine safe for running commandline programs from the unix shell - let us select 'ttydrv, no curses' easily somehow! I'm tired of having a separate .wine directory for console programs, and I'm tired of debian's wine (and possibly also the main tree) breaking commandline programs so badly. - Dan
