At 07:19 p.m. 19/08/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I've just installed DOSEMU and am trying to get a program to run (Dance of
>the Planets, an excellent astronomical package).  I have installed the
>latest stable precompiled binaries (with builtin Freedos) exactly as the
>instructions specified, in a subdirectory of my home directory, and I'm
>running xdosemu as an ordinary user (and have run several programs
>succesfully).  When I try to run dance.exe, however, it comes right back
>at me with the message "Run from local drive or purchase a network
>license".  I looked through the documentation and the archive for this
>list, and saw that this could be a problem with lredir'ed drives -- but
>the proposed solution (if it is even applicable to this situation and the
>latest release of dosemu/freedos) contained the phrase "hence destroying
>the partition" (!)  so, since I didn't entirely understand the solution, I
>thought better of trying it. Any tips or guidance?
>
>Cheers, Robert.
>
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Did you try to run the program from a fat16 image or partition?

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