Windows Mobile 5.0 Now Has a Console!
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.

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- posted by cygwinxp @ 8:03 AM