On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Cheryl Homiak came up with the solution to my problem. I changed
> /etc/fstab as she suggested and also the directory to which I was
> mounting my Windows partition. Now dosemu is working fine. If you didn't
> get her message, let me know, and I'll forward it. Having dos in a
> multitasking environment is a real plus. It also responds much faster
> than it does under Windows.
> Now if we could just get the control keys to work!

I assume you are talking about running dosemu in a terminal here, for
instance the linux console.

the control keys should work but not in all combinations. If Ctrl-A
(or in general, Ctrl-letter) does not work something must be terribly
wrong. To get Esc you must hit it twice in rapid succession. And
Alt+Fkey switches linux consoles.

There exist a few possibilities and work arounds.
a) use xdosemu (might be difficult for you in your circumstances though) or 
b) use $_rawkeyboard=(1) or the -k option. This requires (suid)root for
dosemu.bin, bypasses the terminal and passes keystrokes directly (use
ctrl+alt+fkey to switch consoles) or
c) use a workaround with different keys. Press
   ctrl+^ h 
   (that's ctrl+6 h on US keyboards)
   to get help about which keys to use.

A Unix/Linux terminal simply does not provide all possible key
combinations that DOS applications require.

Bart

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