Forums Developers perl+mirc version of /exec (under wine)

I'm not sure how you're qualifying "a lot more" work. To run exec.dll under wine, you don't even *need* to add an alias, you just need to call the correct command-- this is quite similar to your script prefixing /run commands with a perl script, if not equivalent. The alternate methods (using an env var, adding the alias) are optional-- it's really just:



Yours is:



Of course they're both hidden inside of neat little aliases that also look the same.

To me, creating that alias doesn't seem much more complicated than setting up a perl script (installing, chmodding). But in any case, since your script can't run more than one command at a time, the "extra work" adds a lot more functionality and removes a lot of moving parts like timers, filesystem polling, etc..