wine users - Jan 2006 - wcmd - CALL doesn't honor PATH

Hello,

I noticed this while attempting to run a DOS software suite. The CALL command in
wcmd doesn't seem to honor the set PATH.

If I put this in my environment (via regedit):
    c:\windows;c:\windows\system;e:\;e:\test;f:\;f:\downloads\daphne\tools

Then I put the following in f:\downloads\daphne\tools\bob.bat:

path c:\windows;c:\windows\system;e:\;e:\test;f:\;f:\downloads\daphne\tools
path
CALL bob

Then run bob.bat from the shell, from the f:\downloads\daphne working directory:

F:\downloads\daphne>bob
F:\downloads\daphne>path
c:\windows;c:\windows\system;e:\;e:\test;f:\;f:\downloads\daphne\tools
F:\downloads\daphne>path
PATH=c:\windows;c:\windows\system;e:\;e:\test;f:\;f:\downloads\daphne\tools
F:\downloads\daphne>CALL bob
File not found

F:\downloads\daphne>
F:\downloads\daphne>

You can see that CALL doesn't honor PATH. It should loop until interrupted.
Is this a bug? Any way around it?

Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Is this a bug?
If cmd on Windows follows PATH, then it's a bug.
> Any way around it?
Since you have an excellent bug report, you could report it to
wine-devel@winehq.org and then watch as nothing happens :-). 
(Probably, but who knows!)

Or check out the source code, conjure up a patch, make sure it adheres
to HACKING, then send it to wine-patches@winehq.org.

There's development info here:
http://www.winehq.org/site/resources

There's also a Wine Developer's Guide, but I couldn't find it linked
from anywhere on either the winehq.org main pages or the
wiki.winehq.org main pages.  It's out there.... somewhere...

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 04:26:23 +0000 (UTC), in
gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I noticed this while attempting to run a DOS software suite. The CALL
command in
>wcmd doesn't seem to honor the set PATH.
I have sent a patch that fixes this problem:

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-February/023954.html

Rein.