Re: Assining .bat and .com files with the desktop

2011-08-14 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote: > On 08/11/2011 09:18 AM, Vincent Povirk wrote: >> I'm not sure DOSBox is able to competently open some random executable >> file. One would have to make a config file that sets up a drive >> mapping, runs the file, and quits. If Wine can do th

Re: Assining .bat and .com files with the desktop

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ritchie
On 08/11/2011 09:18 AM, Vincent Povirk wrote: > I'm not sure DOSBox is able to competently open some random executable > file. One would have to make a config file that sets up a drive > mapping, runs the file, and quits. If Wine can do these things (and > maybe also properly handle cases where the

Re: Assining .bat and .com files with the desktop

2011-08-12 Thread Nowres Rafid
Yes On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 08:50 +0200, Thomas Heckel wrote: > > > Am 11.08.2011 17:21, schrieb Nowres Rafid: > > > I propose to associate .bat and .com files with wine's cmd in GNOME, > > KDE and others > > > > Did you mean .bat and .cmd? > This. are the both endings for commandline (batch

Re: Assining .bat and .com files with the desktop

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Heckel
Am 11.08.2011 17:21, schrieb Nowres Rafid: > I propose to associate .bat and .com files with wine's cmd in GNOME, > KDE and others > > Did you mean .bat and .cmd? This. are the both endings for commandline (batch) scripts

Re: Assining .bat and .com files with the desktop

2011-08-11 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Vincent Povirk wrote: > I'm not sure DOSBox is able to competently open some random executable > file. One would have to make a config file that sets up a drive > mapping, runs the file, and quits. If Wine can do these things (and > maybe also properly handle cases

Re: Assining .bat and .com files with the desktop

2011-08-11 Thread André Hentschel
Am 11.08.2011 18:18, schrieb Vincent Povirk: > I'm not sure DOSBox is able to competently open some random executable > file. One would have to make a config file that sets up a drive > mapping, runs the file, and quits. If Wine can do these things (and > maybe also properly handle cases where the

Re: Assining .bat and .com files with the desktop

2011-08-11 Thread Jerome Leclanche
Damjan, I dont believe it is necessary to have separate desktop files for different commands. Just append whatever you need in a new section. I believe chromium does that to differentiate some --flags. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Now

Re: Assining .bat and .com files with the desktop

2011-08-11 Thread Vincent Povirk
I'm not sure DOSBox is able to competently open some random executable file. One would have to make a config file that sets up a drive mapping, runs the file, and quits. If Wine can do these things (and maybe also properly handle cases where the COM executable expects to be run on a windows machine

Re: Assining .bat and .com files with the desktop

2011-08-11 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Nowres Rafid wrote: > I propose to associate .bat and .com files with wine's cmd in GNOME, KDE and > others > > > AFAIK COM files are ancient self-contained real-mode DOS code, with no ability to load DLLs. Shouldn't they rather be loaded by DOSBox, which we deleg

Assining .bat and .com files with the desktop

2011-08-11 Thread Nowres Rafid
I propose to associate .bat and .com files with wine's cmd in GNOME, KDE and others