Having compiled the 1.1.3 version of dosemu, I find that the serial ports are accessed with no problem. The one catch turns out to be that brltty, the braille screen reader package (also some speech support) I use with linux, is stopped dead in its tracks, I assume during the initialization process when starting dosemu. This does not happen with speakup, one of the speech programs I use with linux; speakup keeps going right to the dos prompt and beyond. It isn't probably just the piece of equipment being used, as I use the same equipment for brltty and speakup. I plan to let the maintainer of brltty know about this, and see what answers he may be able to find. However, it is possible to kill brltty before entering dosemu and then start up a DOS speech screen reader on the same equipment. It is also possible simply not to include the serial port on which brltty is running in your dosemu.conf file. In that case, brltty keeps running happily on the dosemu consoles as well as all other consoles during the dosemu session. If one does accidentally leave brltty installed when starting dosemu, brltty dies but can be restarted again on exiting dosemu with a restart command so apparently brltty isn't completely killed. At any rate, I'm happy to have access to the serial ports under dosemu now. thanks to all who helped.
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