wine users - Oct 2009 - Invisible text in cmd

I'm new to wine (1.1.29), and I want to run borland C 4.5 to build a DOS
app.

When I run wineconsole cmd, I can see the flashing cursor, a black window, but
no text. Right click gives the font window fine - example is correct, but output
remains black

commands are executing (e.g. cd c:\ shortens the invisible prompt the right
amount). No error messages on the linux window that launches wineconsole. user
backend doesn't help


I'm sure there's a magic flag I need to set somewhere - any suggestions
what?

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 13:01, djch <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I'm new to wine (1.1.29), and I want to run borland C 4.5 to build a
DOS app.
>
Wine's DOS support is not very good... Dosbox might work better....
(Assuming that Borland C is a DOS program...)
> When I run wineconsole cmd, I can see the flashing cursor, a black window,
but no text. Right click gives the font window fine - example is correct, but
output remains black
>
Very strange, My sidux box does the same...

wineconsole --backend=curses seem to be a workaround...

Also: You don't need wineconsole for command-line apps, just for
full-screen stuff.

WINEDEBUG=+wineconsole wineconsole cmd
 gives some output that might be useful (to someone that know
wineconsole, which is not me...)

Note: Changing the font / colors does not have an effect.

Gert