On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> I am wondering about the versions of dosemu. Somebody suggested I use
> dosemu-1.1.3. However, while i did find a redhat package with this version
> number, I am using debian. My present version is 1.0.2, and this also appears to
> be the latest stable version at dosemu.org. Can somebody explain this to me?

You'll have to compile 1.1.3 from source. While 1.1.3 is marked as an
unstable release it is not unusable at all and might (most probably
does) work fine for you (better than 1.0.2 if you need the serial bug
fixes).

> Also, I am still trying to figure out what permissions root has that I don't
> have that is allowing root to work the com ports in dosemu while I still can't.

The problem is a bug in dosemu-1.0.2. It refuses to create lock files
unless it has root permissions. This has not been fixed in the stable
series yet.

> I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the dosemu.users file but haven't
> explored this much yet. I am also wondering whether or not I would be better off
> to install a dosemu specific to my home directory and dump the debian
> system-wide one; don't know if that would help or not.

That should not matter with respect to com ports.

Bart

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