Windows Mobile 5.0 Now Has a Console!

[Bandung]

It is now possible to load and run Microsoft's console as well as Simbolic's PocketConsole.  Here are the steps.

1. Get the Pocket Console and install it
Pocket Console

2. Get the Pocket CMD file and install it
Pocket Cmd

3. You can also install Microsoft's cmd program in parallel with the Open Source one.  There is a pocket cmd console buried within PowerToys 2003.  I tried to install it but it didn't work properly.  If you can extract the following three files from the CAB then you can get it working.  All you need is the cmd.exe and shell.exe files placed anywhere in one directory.  Then use the console.dll that symbolic installs within the Windows directory rather than the Microsoft console.dll and you will be able to run Microsoft's cmd dos utility.
I have a stand alone install for Microsoft's Cmd utility version 4.2 as well as the older one called 3.0  These work quite well.  I just don't know where to find them on the web anymore.  If you would like to try the stand alone installer, I will post them on a free downloading file site.

4. The most important step!  Change the following registry entry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Console\OutputTo

set this value to 0

What is beautiful about this set of programs is that I can now launch other apps from a dos console.  I am able to launch the pocket ssh port created by Rainer (it supports tunneling) and other apps that have command line arguments and switches. Example.  ssh mysite.com  -l bandung -L 25:127.0.0.1:25  

So to the point.  I want to be able to launch python with the command line prompts/arguments.  Things such as python.exe my_module.py -i  and the like.  But these features seemed to have been removed from the python ce port.  If they are put back, then we should be able to  test our modules by running them within an interactive python session.

[Bandung]

It is strange that I can use the Cmd console to launch other programs such as Vim.exe and hand these apps a file to open when they startup.  For example, the following works when I type "vim sample.txt" at the command prompt...

Pocket CDM v 4.20
\>  vim sample.txt

This starts up Vim with the file sample.txt loaded.

I can just as easily launch pocket word in the same manner.

      \> pword sample.doc

Yet when I try to launch python with a py module, it borks.

       \> python sample.py

Traceback (innermost last):
<NULL>: <NULL>

If I just type python, then it launches ok.

       \> python

Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Oct 11 2006 ......
>>>

There are a number of os functions not implemented within pythonce such as os.system or os.exec or os.spawn  but I fail to see why this should stop the cmd console's shell from starting python and handing it a module as an argument.

Any thoughts?

Bandung wrote:

It is now possible to load and run Microsoft's console as well as Simbolic's PocketConsole.  Here are the steps.

1. Get the Pocket Console and install it
Pocket Console

2. Get the Pocket CMD file and install it
Pocket Cmd

3. You can also install Microsoft's cmd program in parallel with the Open Source one.  There is a pocket cmd console buried within PowerToys 2003.  I tried to install it but it didn't work properly.  If you can extract the following three files from the CAB then you can get it working.  All you need is the cmd.exe and shell.exe files placed anywhere in one directory.  Then use the console.dll that symbolic installs within the Windows directory rather than the Microsoft console.dll and you will be able to run Microsoft's cmd dos utility.
I have a stand alone install for Microsoft's Cmd utility version 4.2 as well as the older one called 3.0  These work quite well.  I just don't know where to find them on the web anymore.  If you would like to try the stand alone installer, I will post them on a free downloading file site.

4. The most important step!  Change the following registry entry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Console\OutputTo

set this value to 0

What is beautiful about this set of programs is that I can now launch other apps from a dos console.  I am able to launch the pocket ssh port created by Rainer (it supports tunneling) and other apps that have command line arguments and switches. Example.  ssh mysite.com  -l bandung -L 25:127.0.0.1:25  

So to the point.  I want to be able to launch python with the command line prompts/arguments.  Things such as python.exe my_module.py -i  and the like.  But these features seemed to have been removed from the python ce port.  If they are put back, then we should be able to  test our modules by running them within an interactive python session.

[Bandung]

What a difference a "\" makes.

When calling python, it needs to have the exact path given, the relative path doesn't work.  So if I enter the following..

     \> python \sample.py

Then it works!  What this means is I can now write bat files which call various pythom modules.  I can also  execute python modules from the cmd console by typing

     \>    python \path\sample\module.py

What I want to get working next is the ability to execute my python scripts/modules from within pocket Vim.  I can already edit python modules from within pocket Vim, complete with all of the syntax hiliting, that includes colours and correct indentations.  I can assign a key stroke combo to launch macros and now that I can get python to run from the cmd concole and pass it a module, I have the makings of a pretty decent development environment.

I just wish that the -i parameter would work.  Then we could type the following..

   \>    python \path\sample\module.py  -i

and put python into the interactive mode while loading the module.  If anyone knows how to get pythonce to accept parameters such as -i, etc,  this would be the bomb.

Bandung


It is strange that I can use the Cmd console to launch other programs such as Vim.exe and hand these apps a file to open when they startup.  For example, the following works when I type "vim sample.txt" at the command prompt...

Pocket CDM v 4.20
\>  vim sample.txt

This starts up Vim with the file sample.txt loaded.

I can just as easily launch pocket word in the same manner.

      \> pword sample.doc

Yet when I try to launch python with a py module, it borks.

       \> python sample.py

Traceback (innermost last):
<NULL>: <NULL>

If I just type python, then it launches ok.

       \> python

Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Oct 11 2006 ......
>>>

There are a number of os functions not implemented within pythonce such as os.system or os.exec or os.spawn  but I fail to see why this should stop the cmd console's shell from starting python and handing it a module as an argument.

Any thoughts?

Bandung wrote:

It is now possible to load and run Microsoft's console as well as Simbolic's PocketConsole.  Here are the steps.

1. Get the Pocket Console and install it
Pocket Console

2. Get the Pocket CMD file and install it
Pocket Cmd

3. You can also install Microsoft's cmd program in parallel with the Open Source one.  There is a pocket cmd console buried within PowerToys 2003.  I tried to install it but it didn't work properly.  If you can extract the following three files from the CAB then you can get it working.  All you need is the cmd.exe and shell.exe files placed anywhere in one directory.  Then use the console.dll that symbolic installs within the Windows directory rather than the Microsoft console.dll and you will be able to run Microsoft's cmd dos utility.
I have a stand alone install for Microsoft's Cmd utility version 4.2 as well as the older one called 3.0  These work quite well.  I just don't know where to find them on the web anymore.  If you would like to try the stand alone installer, I will post them on a free downloading file site.

4. The most important step!  Change the following registry entry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Console\OutputTo

set this value to 0

What is beautiful about this set of programs is that I can now launch other apps from a dos console.  I am able to launch the pocket ssh port created by Rainer (it supports tunneling) and other apps that have command line arguments and switches. Example.  ssh mysite.com  -l bandung -L 25:127.0.0.1:25  

So to the point.  I want to be able to launch python with the command line prompts/arguments.  Things such as python.exe my_module.py -i  and the like.  But these features seemed to have been removed from the python ce port.  If they are put back, then we should be able to  test our modules by running them within an interactive python session.