As a newcomer to this list, let me first say that DOSEMU is an amazing
achievement. VMware costs a huge sum and doesn't support VESA graphics, and
runs slowly. DOSEMU runs at top speed, supports VESA graphics, and is
amazingly flexible. Many thanks to everyone who helped put to together.

Two questions (I'm running 1.0.2.1 under Red Hat Linux 7.2, with MS-DOS 6.22
as the DOS version):

To run WordPerfect for DOS, I wanted the Number Pad Plus and Minus keys to
work they work under ordinary DOS. By commenting out the $_X_keycode = (off)
line in doemurc, I was able to get the number pad plus and minus keys to
work properly - but only if I toggled on the NumLock key before starting
DOSEMU. In other words, the NumLock key seems to produce the opposite effect
of the one it should have - with NumLock OFF, the Plus and Minus keys
produced plus and minus signs; with NumLock ON, they scrolled up and down
one screen in WPDOS. Is this a bug? (I reported as one to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
but maybe I'm just misunderstanding something in the configuration).

Second, I'm having a lot of trouble getting DOSEMU to work well in an
ordinary terminal (./dosemu, not ./xdosemu) or in the console. In a
terminal, WPDOS tends to lock up quickly, or the function keys seem not to
work at all. In the console, the unshifted function keys work well, but
Shift-F1 gets interpreted by WPDOS as Shift-F3, Shift-F2 gets interpreted as
Shift-F4, etc. The Alt- and Ctrl- function keys seem not to work as expected
at all.

Also, in the console, I can't figure out how to tell DOSEMU to use the box
drawing characters in hardware instead of the replacment characters that get
used instead. Is there a fix for this?

Finally, I've experienced the same bug reported elsewhere on this list in
which DOSEMU shuts down after giving one or two commands, and I hope someday
it becomes possible to use hardware graphics as an ordinary user, not as
root.

Thanks again for any advice, and for a splendid program.

Edward Mendelson


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