I don't want to get into a flamewar over this, but I'm working on Fortran 77 program for a personal project. Because the gcc maintainers gave up on F77, and f95 is partial superset that deprecates some F77 stuff, I'm trying to do this with the DJGPP g77 compiler under DOS emulation. g77 dies under DOSBOX, so I switched to DOSEMU. I've been able to test-build "Hello World" and was itching to get started. I really don't like DOS EDIT (and it's memory constrained), and I love VIM. So the 32-bit DOS version of VIM seemed a natural choice within DOSEMU. But any attempt to save a file after editing causes error messages galore, and wipes out the original file (OUCH!). A bit of detective work shows that DOS VIM starts off with zero-byte files that have weird permissions, like so...
waltd...@d530 ~/.dosemu/drive_c/tmp $ ll total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 waltdnes users 104 Aug 1 20:59 . drwxr-xr-x 8 waltdnes users 336 Aug 1 21:01 .. -r--r--r-- 1 waltdnes users 0 Aug 1 18:08 VIEW.BAT~ -r--rw-r-- 1 waltdnes users 0 Aug 1 20:59 hw.for~ Needless to say, it cannot save to read-only files. I've already tried monkeying with umask, with no effect. For now, I use an xterm with linux VIM editing the DOS files, and DOSEMU runs in another window, where I do the compile and test runs. Yeah, it works, but I'd prefer an all-in-one solution. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
