wine users - Mar 2009 - CMD: color and "interactive mode"?

My main purpose in trying Wine is to see if I can leverage several
command-line-based utilities that a colleague has written.

I am testing with both Ubuntu and OSX (1.0.1 via MacPorts).  After a successful
install, I launch "wine cmd".  From there I can launch one of the 
utilities (I added the folder where these exist to the PATH environment
variable).

The utilities will launch correctly, but they use color and they are
interactive.  CMD won't show the color and then when it gets to the
interactive piece it displays options (such as YN, for example), but will not
accept any input that I give it.  Typically on Windows, answering "Y"
will then give control back to the program and it will go on.  Here, however, a
"Y" and <enter> will just leave me in the terminal with the
cursor on the next line.  This entry isn't transferred back to the executing
program.

Any suggestions on how to use CMD to receive input when prompted?  The color
return would sure be nice too!

Thanks,

iveand

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:40 PM, iveand <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Any suggestions on how to use CMD to receive input when prompted? ?The
color return would sure be nice too!
>
Try 'wine start cmd'

That opens a command-prompt window that supports a few things better
(or rather more Windows-like) than a unix terminal.

Gert

Indeed that fixed the problem.  Color and "interaction" are supported
via wine start cmd.

Thanks.

iveand