On Thursday 20 Feb 2003 22:41, J. Grant wrote: > Hello > > I have been using wcmd lately, its been really useful to my research. > > However, could wcmd default to its "command history" (a la doskey) value > to something other than zero please? Perhaps 50 would be enough, it > would not take up much memory for the queue strcture I think.
AFAIK cmd.exe uses an undocumented kernel function GetConsoleCommandHistory(), so it will be necessary to document that and then implement it. > It would be great if the wcmd text area was bigger too, current it > starts as 80x25, however, if I change it to 80x80 in the wcmd prefs > (then resize the window, as it does not auto adjust) and type "dir" the > same top 80x25 chars are the only ones used to display text. I ran > cmd.exe from within wcmd and the same problem showed up. So it appears > that its either the way Wine displays windows, or wcmd. I tried > "wineconsole ./cmd.exe" too, that locked up my terminal with lots of > NCURSES fixme printf's. > > > cmd.exe in MS-Windows is resizable vertically, and the extra lines are > used. The directory command is hard-coded in wcmd/directory.c to use 25 lines as the screen depth. Maybe it should check the console size, though I don't know whether the console routines have the necessary support yet. Dave Pickles
