vitamin wrote: > Wine uses wineconsole only when explicitly asked for. And it's needed to fully emulate windows' console which is highly not compatible with standard *NIX terminal. Ok, so it IS a missing feature - at least there could be an option in the settings in what way to run console apps by default. vitamin wrote: > This is a known problem. Console apps display text in wrong locale. Well, yes "wrong locale" - also especially special text mode characters like lines, blocks, etc. (char >127) you use to draw "windows", bars and stuff in the console. DaVince wrote: > A bit irrelevant to your problem, but what does your program do? I create IT module music every once in a while and I kind of like tools surrounding these kind of things, so... It's just yet another .it-player for DOS and Win32 (probably also for native linux soon). :P Like the original impulse tracker completely written in asm. It's called pmmod - you can download it from my website (if you're not scared of all the german [Laughing] ) in the "Assembler" section.