Linux-Misc Digest #89, Volume #19 Thu, 18 Feb 99 22:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Partition Magic? (Troy Carter)
Re: Opinions about LyX? ("Robert J. Budzynski")
Re: Chinese on Netscape Communicator? (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Re: Can Applixware open Micorsoft Word formatted files (i.e. .doc ("Robert C.
Paulsen, Jr.")
Re: HTML and/or Java email client for LInux??? (Dave Edick)
glibc-2.1 and ld.so (David Madore)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (St�phane Brunet)
help help help please! ("JACK")
changing my HD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Stepper Motor control (Michel Catudal)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (John S. Dyson)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (John S. Dyson)
Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated? (Todd Knarr)
Re: Image Viewer Applications (Hans Wolters)
user web pages (D E G)
Re: How does X choose fonts? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (William Wueppelmann)
Re: Linux Wrappers for DOS programs (Andrew Cannon)
Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated? (Todd Knarr)
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From: Troy Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Partition Magic?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:14:58 -0500
I use BootMagic, which comes with PartitionMagic 4.0. I think it works
great, but there are other solutions which are free (like LILO).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hey!
>
> What is the recomended Boot/partition Manager for multi OS'?
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Robert J. Budzynski")
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Opinions about LyX?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 12:02:27 +0100
Phil Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In uk.comp.os.linux Charlie Stross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : If your main problem is the widget library, try KLyX, the KDE version -- Qt
> : is a hell of a lot nicer than Xforms.
>
> Is KLyX not based on an earlier LyX though? I thought it was based on 0.12
> or something, and so doesn't have the latex-importing and so on that LyX
> 1.0 does.
>
correct AFAIK
> At the risk of restarting yet another KDE/Qt licence war, there are those
> who don't want to use Qt because of Troll's licensing policy.
>
LyX is based on xforms which isn't free software either (though it is
gratis, with some restrictions).
> Me, I'd just like to have more applications than widget sets. > >
Amen!
--
Robert J. Budzy�ski
Computer Center, Dept. of Physics, Warsaw University, Poland
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://Budzynski.ddns.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Chinese on Netscape Communicator?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 12:21:37 +0800
>>>>> "Kenny" == Kenny Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kenny> Hi, I have various chinese fonts in my linux box and my
Kenny> Communicator 4.5 can display Chinese pages already. But
Kenny> Chinese words in textboxes and pull-down menus in the web
Kenny> page still can't be displayed. Could anyone tell me how to
Kenny> do that? Thanks in advance.
This is a "feature" (a.k.a. "bug") of Netscape browsers.
--
Lee Sau Dan $(0,X)wAV(B(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
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From: "Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Applixware open Micorsoft Word formatted files (i.e. .doc
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:20:13 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Is the reverse also true? Will Microsoft Word and Excel open Applixware files?
I doubt MS Office can open Applixware or StarOffice files. But, Star
Office (and probably Aplixware -- I don't have it so can't really say)
can save files in MS Office format.
--
Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the
inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Edick)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.java.advocacy
Subject: Re: HTML and/or Java email client for LInux???
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 02:05:57 GMT
Sheesh. I figured SOMEONE would have given a useful answer by now...
It's not like he's asking for something exotic.
Go to www.freshmeat.net and type "web mail" in the search window.
You'll get at least a half dozen of them.
On 18 Feb 1999 22:41:38 GMT, Kersi Mehta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Let me rephrase...I want to create a simple user interface for a user
group.
Since they all know/trust/love web browsers, I am putting some basice
utilties,
including hopefully an email client on a browser window.
Any ideas?
Cyrus
--
/Dave Edick/ dedick at home dot com.
or remove the hates.spam part from the header
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Madore)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: glibc-2.1 and ld.so
Date: 19 Feb 1999 01:30:35 GMT
Hi all.
[This is pretty long, I know, but there's an interesting proposal at
the end for those who have had the patience to read that far.]
I'm writing this message using my newly compiled glibc-2.1 (you know,
the library which was briefly uploaded on the ftp sites and then
disappeared again for no adequately explained reason). The most
amazing thing is that nothing coredumped (for the moment at least),
not even /bin/true (just some horrible memory of when I first
installed glibc-2.0, in the heroic days before RedHat came along and
solved all the problems for me). So I'd like to congratulate the
developers for this admirable exploit.
I was so firmly persuaded that everything would break to pieces that I
duplicated my entire / and /usr partitions and rebooted with this
``fake root'' instead of the real one; that way, even if things went
completely awry I would only have damaged the copy partitions. (Well,
assuming the library didn't do some random poking on the disk, because
it's been reported to do that, also.)
Of course, the obvious thing to start trying with was to install in
/usr/local/glibc-2.1 instead of /usr (and /lib). This is what I did,
because the FAQ recommended that I do so, and I have some comments on
the subject.
First, it would seem that once I compiled with prefix
/usr/local/glibc-2.1, when I wanted to compile with prefix /usr, I had
no other choice but to wipe everything and start again. I couldn't
just copy the /usr/local/glibc-2.1 files to places in /usr, because
the prefix path was hardcoded in several places. This is perhaps
unavoidable but it is certainly unfortunate.
Then there is the question of the dynamic linker. Just why every
single version of the libc has to come with its own version of the
linker, that not only is not capable of loading future versions of the
libc but also past version, that is something that the developers
probably have some good reason for, but I have never understood it.
In any case, the 2.0 ld.so is not capable of loading the 2.1 glibc
*and vice versa*. So my question is, how in the world am I supposed
to use the library and all the stuff that gets installed in
/usr/local/glibc-2.1? If I try running one of the binaries in
/usr/local/glibc-2.1/bin, it fails because it loads the ld-2.1.so in
/usr/local/glibc-2.1/lib (that is hardcoded in the binary) and that
ld.so tries to load /lib/libc.so.6 and it can't. Of course I could
add an LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/glibc-2.1/lib (or add that path in
the ld.so.conf) but if I do that the /lib/ld-2.0.so is helpless
because it can't load the glibc-2.1 library. As for compiling any
glibc-2.1 binaries with this setup, it seems completely hopeless.
In the switch from libc5 to libc6, the following solution to this
problem was adopted: the ld.so was given the ad hoc capability of
distinguishing between libc5 and libc6 libraries, and the given ld.so
would only load whichever libraries concerned it. That way, both
something like /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib and /usr/lib could be put in
the /etc/ld.so.conf and they wouldn't get mixed up despite the name
conflicts for some libraries (such as libX11.so.6). This solution
can't be used for glibc-2.1 because the dynamic linker can't
distinguish glibc-2.0 and glibc-2.1 binaries. So it seems you can't
make glibc-2.0 and glibc-2.1 cohabit on the same system.
Still, there *is* a solution, but it's a dirty hack: compile, as I
did, the glibc-2.1 with prefix /usr/local/glibc-2.1. Then edit the
ld-2.1.so in /usr/local/glibc-2.1/lib and replace the occurrences of
the strings /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.cache by /utc/ld.so.conf
and /utc/ld.so.cache (or some such thing). Now the two dynamic
linkers have separate configs. In the /etc/ld.so.conf you put the
standard search path, and in the /utc/ld.so.conf you put
/usr/local/glibc-2.1/lib before all. Then things will work correctly.
Now why do I need such an awful thing to do what I want?
So here is my proposal: let the dynamic linker look for a
version-specific file (one which might be specified at compile time)
before it looks for /etc/ld.so.conf (and similarly for environment
variables). In that way, I can install several batches of libraries
(with identical names) by installing several different ld.so's and
configuring them differently (telling them to look in different
directories). When I install a new libc, and for as long as I'm
testing it, I can have something like /lib/ld-brandnew.so point to the
associated dynamic loader, and I can compile programs to use that
dynamic loader, which will have its special configuration files that
call the appropriate new libraries (and the old programs don't get
affected in any way). If I decide I like this new libc and I want to
replace the former one by the new one (assuming they're binary
compatible), all I need to do is make /lib/ld-linux.so point to the
same place as /lib/ld-brandnew.so (while leaving that one as it was)
and that's all (old programs will now call the new linker, and it will
in turn call the new libraries).
--
David A. Madore
([EMAIL PROTECTED],
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/)
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From: St�phane Brunet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:26:51 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BobO wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:53:38, Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>
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> |
> |>>>>> "Bob" == BobO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |
> | Bob> Its a survival of the fittest world. If you drive a
> | Bob> subcompact then . . . .what can I say?
> |
> |In the Darwinian sense (not what you meant, I guess) "survival of the
> |fittest" referred to adaptability. Those creatures survived best
> |which were best able to adapt to their surroundings. That does not
> |seem to describe drivers of SUVs.
>
> Sure it does, the other poster claimed SUV drivers were causing the
> mortality rates to rise for smaller vehicles even while the overall
> mortality rate was declining. Personally, I can't think of a single
> better measure of the Darwinian principle at work.
What are you guys talking about?
Darwinianism especially implies reproduction...
and SUV drivers have WAY LESS SEX than sports car drivers - it's a fact.
SUV's and MiniVans are a waste - they should be recycled.
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From: "JACK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: help help help please!
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:30:55 -0000
howdy
I'm not sure if this is the right news group but. I'm trying to compile and
install glibc-2.0.7.pre6 however during the
make procedure i get the following error
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/glibc/glibc-2.0.7pre6/ctype'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `others'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/glibc/glibc-2.0.7pre6/ctype'
make -C db others
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/glibc/glibc-2.0.7pre6/db'
gcc -B../ -nostdlib -nostartfiles -o
akedb -Wl,-dynamic-linker=/usr/local/lib/ld-linux.so.2 -g ../csu/start.o
../csu/crti.o `gcc -B../ --print-file-name=crtbegin.o` makedb.o
ibdb.so.2 -Wl,-rpath-link=..:../elf:../nss:../nis:.:../resolv
../libc.so.6 ../libc_nonshared.a -lgcc
`gcc -B../ --print-file-name=crtend.o` ../csu/crtn.o
../libc.so.6: undefined reference to `__libc_cleanup_end'
make[1]: *** [makedb] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/glibc/glibc-2.0.7pre6/db'
make: *** [db/others] Error 2
i have binutils version 2.8
Gcc version 2.7.2.2
libc5 version 5.44.4
make version 3.75
according to the documentation this should be eough to complile I'm running
kernel 2.0.30
,and i'm about to loose my mind has any one any ideas
j
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: changing my HD
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:21:49 GMT
Here is my problem:
I have a HD that is TOTALLY full. Then I am going to acquire a new HD, but I
want to transfert everything on the new HD and being able to boot on that one
(and get rid of the old one:330Mb!). How do I do that? Thanks for your help.
Edouard OYER
How can you expect to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stepper Motor control
Date: 17 Feb 1999 23:21:41 -0600
Paul Mathis wrote:
>
>> I actually have a stepper motor controlled with the parallel port under
> linux. I harvested a motor from a dead 5 1/4 floppy drive and I'm using
> it to rotate my webcam. The page using it is at:
> http://www.alignment.net/~restil/spy.html
The fact remains that the potential for problem exist. I work on electronic designs
for a living and I know that such circuit would never pass UL or CSA without if they
are not well isolated. UL or CSA is not there just to piss us off, it is meant to
protect people against hazards.
--
Tann� du plantage avec Ti-Mou?
Alors essayez donc Linux ou OS/2
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. Dyson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 19 Feb 1999 00:17:14 GMT
In article <7ahq7a$5g8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> In article <7ag2p3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> John S. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>Honest statement about my position:
>>
>>I understand that you wrote the code, and incorrectly and
>>call your software free, and I'm still going to
>>complain about the errsatz-free copyright -- only because
>>it isn't free. I'll answer the question honestly when
>>discussion comes up.
>
> So then you must be happy that we changed the "free" to "open source",
> right?
>
Please parse FSF. Their software isn't free.
>
> Go away, John, your arguments just do not make sense, and I still don't
> see why you _continue_ to just be an anti-GPL bigot in public.
>
You are the one using personal remarks.
>
> Bigotry is ugly, John.
>
Speaking of bigotry read the GNU manifesto. Thank you.
>
> Let's just kill this thread again.
>
"Killing" is possible by those who control, like those who
use GPL. "Control" the future inventions through creative
licensing.
--
John | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | it makes one look stupid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | and it irritates the pig.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. Dyson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 19 Feb 1999 00:20:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Caley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <7af3sj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John S Dyson (jsd) writes:
>
> jsd> Honest GPL preamble:
>
> jsd> I understand that you might have spent 6months or so of your
> jsd> own or billable time in producing a new techology. However,
> jsd> [...]
>
> Someone who spends 6 months working on something but didn't read the
> licence is very hard for any licence to cope with.
>
I agree... READ the license, and if there are any questions, pass
the license by your legal staff. I *always* advocate careful reading
of license materials. It is also useful to look at accompanying
documents explaining the attitude of the owner or license holder.
--
John | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | it makes one look stupid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | and it irritates the pig.
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 05:27:05 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Frank McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But... the XF86Config "Modeline" information will, eventually, be
> converted back into values which will be stuffed into the adapter's
> control and data registers. Admittedly, the number, location, and
Yes, however those values are dependent on the monitor. Unplug one monitor
and plug in another on the same video card, and the modeline numbers needed
will change. To a degree you can compensate for incorrect modeline numbers
with the monitor's controls, but there's limits to that.
> The only (;-) problem would seem to be constructing Modelines _from_ the
> register contents (and hoping that EGA-style write-only control
> registers are now completely out of fashion). Trivial (;-) E.F.E.
> (Exercise For Engineers), right? (;-)
Not really. Where did those numbers in the registers come from? The
software can't put them there, it doesn't know what they are yet. The
video card can't, ditto. The BIOS can't, _it_ doesn't know what monitor
you have plugged in. The monitor knows what it theoretically needs, but
most monitors have no way of telling the video card and the ones that do
the makers won't release the specs so we've got no way of using that
information. And if you use something other than the standard resolutions
( 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 ) and refresh rates you are SOL
even with PnP because they didn't encode that information in the monitor.
--
All I want out of the Universe is 10 minutes with the source code and
a quick recompile.
-- unknown
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Subject: Re: Image Viewer Applications
Date: 16 Feb 1999 20:48:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthias Warkus wrote:
:It was the 16 Feb 1999 09:04:46 GMT...
:..and Hans Wolters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snap]
:> There's one that's almost the same. Can't remember the name but I know you
:> can find it at www.gtk.org (applications). It uses gtk+ but I think there is
:> a static version too.
:
:Could it be you mean Electric Eyes (ee)? AFAIK, it needs Gnome.
Nope, there's a real 'lookalike' you can download. Works fine but I think
there will be faster ones around.
Regards Hans
--
Java Search Engine Front End
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/
Linux Links/CMI8330 Soundpro HOWTO
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/linux.htm
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From: D E G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: user web pages
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:53:02 -0500
i know this is supposed to be really simple, but i'm having major
problems seting up user web pages (ie www.../~user =
/home/user/public_html). i'm running apache on rh5.2
here is an excerpt from my access.conf file:
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
Order allow,deny
Allow from 128.59.
Options Indexes Includes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
whenever i try to access the page i get:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~user/ on this server
(and yes i do have the proper permissions set on the files)
anyone have any ideas?
tia.
D E G
--
Remove "_nospam_" to reply.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but desperate times call for desperate
measures.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How does X choose fonts?
Date: 16 Feb 1999 20:49:10 GMT
Stephen Richard FREELAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't know any sources of documentation, except for X' actual
> manuals. Or try the man page for XLoadFont. Sigh... fonts in X are a
> pretty ugly state of affairs, I'm afraid.
You should checkout your favorite Linx Documentation Project(*) mirror
for the XWindow-User-HOWTO. There' *all* sorts of useful nuggegs
on how the X Window environment is set-up and how to make changes.
Simeon
(*) I use http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/ldp.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:50:47 GMT
In our last episode (Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:35:46 -0500),
the artist formerly known as Jim Ross said:
>
>How about if we say Linux is on par with Windows on ease of use but harder
>to learn?
Ease of learning is a tough call, since it's very difficult to test these
kinds of things. One question you have to ask is harder to learn to what
level? To the point where the user can start up the system and/or login and
start a handful of programs that have been preinstalled and preconfigured? To
the point where the user can navigate the system's directories and files, find
help and other documentation and figure out how to accomplish new tasks? To
the point where the user can install and configure the system on a new, naked
computer, fix any problems that occur, and so forth? Somewhere in between two
of these?
One of the main problems with Windows is that the learning curve is more of a
straight line; learning one thing in Windows doesn't help you learn another
nearly as much as it does in Linux (even the MCSE teaching guides seem to
teach you how to do a series of specific tasks by rote memorization of the
steps involved to complete that specific task--and these are the manuals meant
to teach people how to become Windows experts--perhaps they don't teach the
unifying theories and principles behind the OS because it doesn't have any.)
In terms of ease of use, there is no comparison. Linux is head and shoulders
above Windows on ease of use issues. By ease of use, I mean how readily and
efficiently you can make the system do what you want it to. That's the only
sense in which the term is really meaningful, at least to me.
>I say the first part because if GUI was so easy why are there so many
>wizards to do tasks?
It's more a case of that particular GUI being a bad design. There are good
GUIs and bad command line interfaces out there too. All in all, command and
text-based interfaces tend to be more efficient, though I think I prefer a GUI
for things like image creation and manipulation programs.
--
William
It is pitch black. You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: Andrew Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Wrappers for DOS programs
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:55:33 +0100
Richard Payne wrote:
> Andrew Cannon wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Does anyone know of a system for combining a DOS .exe file with a
> >"wrapper" which will make it executable under Linux. In other words,
> >rather than firing up dosemu and running the DOS program inside it, I
> >want to create a Linux executable which can be run from bash like any
> >other Linux program.
> >
> >The wrapper would have to provide the virtual machine/BIOS environment
> >expected by the DOS program and connect console I/O to the Linux stdio
> >paths.
> >
> >Obviously the success of this is going to depend on what DOS
> >functionality the program uses, but for programs which just do console
> >and disk I/O and look at environment variables (eg compilers etc) this
> >should be relatively simple.
> >
> >Has anyone got information on something like this or about how to do it?
> >Thanks.
> >
> >...Andrew
>
> I think that you can pass DOSEMU the parameter of a program to run, using
> a particular hard disk image. Take a look through the latest DOSEMU docs,
> and I think you'll find something.
>
> Is that even close to what you wanted?
>
> --
> Rich Payne
> (Speaking for myself, not my employer)
> payner at timken dot com
>
> Looking for Alpha-Linux info?
> http://www.alphalinux.org
Not exactly...I want the DOS program to access the Linux filesystem rather
than a disk image. So for example if I have a certain development tool
"tool.exe" which only runs under DOS, I want to add a wrapper to it to get a
Linux executable "wtool".
When wtool is forked by the shell its stdio paths are connected to the
console I/O of the DOS program. If the DOS program does an open("afile", ...)
then it opens the file "afile" in the current Linux directory etc.
I don't think dosemu can be used to do this, but correct me if I'm wrong...
Andrew
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 05:57:52 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x Frank McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for the good illustration. An automatic transmission requires
> complexity of design and manufacture, but it's _not_ complicated to
> _operate_.
It's simpler to operate _within the limits of what it is designed to
let you do_. If you want to do engine braking, or hold a lower gear
longer, you run into the problem that, as simple as the automatic is
to operate, it simply is not possible to make it do what you want.
This is, in fact, one of my big headaches with Windows in general:
what's easy is really easy, what's not easy is impossible.
What XFree86 lacks isn't a simple setup. Xconfigurator is as easy to
use as Windows, for hardware that's on the list. What we need is
a) a longer list, and b) more newbies willing to ask "My brand XYZ
model 42B monitor isn't on the list, does anyone have the settings
for it?".
--
All I want out of the Universe is 10 minutes with the source code and
a quick recompile.
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