hi all,

just some random thoughts and questions:


#1
when running redneck rampage without DPMI, the following message is
printed to the xterm:

   lucifer# xdos
   kernel CPU speed is 1300264000 Hz
   CPU-EMU speed is 1300 MHz
   Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
   ERROR: general protection at 0xfadf: 66
   ERROR: SIGSEGV, protected insn...exiting!

shouldn't dosemu catch segmentation violations and perhaps print a more
useful message?  or am i missing the point and dosemu IS catching a
sigsegv?



#2
wouldn't it make more sense to have $DOSEMU_LIB_DIR set in dosemu.conf?
this file gets included into global.conf, so the global.conf should
still be able to have access to whatever the user sets $DOSEMU_LIB_DIR
to.


#3
is there a way of getting dos to print its version number?


#4
about the howto.  i don't know dosemu very well, but i sure know
docbook.  and i would be very good about updating it.  i save all the
useful messages that come across this list and would be willing to put
this information into the howto.  the dosemu howto is one of the
shortest howtos out there.  it deserves to be one of the largest.   ;-)

can i maintain it?  it's not entirely clear who has the copyright.
according to license that the howto falls under, the person who is most
likely the copyright holder is david hodges.  but the copy distributed
with dosemu is NOT the same as the copy that's on linuxdoc.org.  i think
that alstair is the copyright holder of the copy distributed with
dosemu.   we have two nearly identical documents with the same name with
different copyright holders.   :-)

anyway, i'd promise to be a good maintainer if this is ok with people
here.  i contacted david hodges who said it would be ok with him.


that's about it.
pete


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The mathematics [of physics] has become ever more abstract, rather than more
complicated.  The mind of God appears to be abstract but not complicated.
He also appears to like group theory.  --  Tony Zee's `Fearful Symmetry'

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