[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2 Apr 02 at 9:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >John J. Boyer wrote: > > >I have no problem in mounting my hda drive and reading the files on it > >while running Linux. > > > >But running the dBase program is another story. > > > >I thought that dosemu might come to the rescue. And I am certain that > >it will -once I have discovered how to use it. > > Roger, > > do you have dosemu installed? You probably will not need the > MS-DOS version on your Windows partition in order to run your > application. Forget my entire post to the list and set up dosemu on > your Linux file system (probably using the freedos packet). > > I suppose you have mounted hda to your Linux file system. > If you cannot run programs on hda this may be due to the > wrong options in the 'mount' command. > > Christof Lange > It may not come as a surprise that I am now more confused than I was when I started.
In part that is my fault, because I was too brief in describing my problem. So here is a more detailed account: I have installed both the dosfree and the dosemu rpm packages in the right order and they work. I have created a symbolic link from my mounted DOS/Windows 98 partition to a sub directory in my /home directory. By starting with the "xdosemu -d" command, I can access my mounted DOS/Windows partition and run the DOS programs that are in that directory. I have only tried two and both run. But neither run as they should. In my previous post, I flagged explicitly my Home Accounts program that uses dBase3 (and some dBase3 scripts)..It is unusable because <dosemu|Linux> has got confused by the characters that dBase3 uses for creating the layout on the screens that it displays. In DOS the called Home Accounts program first displays one (introductory) screen, then automatically switches to a second (introductory) screen and then - after pressing RETURN - switches to a Menu screen from which a range of activities can be selected. When run from dosemu, the two introductory screens are both displayed immediately and overlap each other (so that they are only partially readable) and the Menu screen is totally mangled and unusable. My other DOS program (MealMaster) gives a correct initial screen (although only a fraction of the size that it occupies when run from DOS, but the PATH to its data files (set currently to C:\MM_DATA) is now incorrect. I believe that the second problem is within my abilities to remedy; the first one is beyond me. I was hoping (and am still hoping) that if dosemu can be persuaded to use the DOS routines that are in the DOS directory of the DOS\Windows partition, the normal DOS signals for LF, CR, etc would be recognised. Am I barking up the wrong tree? I believe that this and many other (yet-to be-encountered) problems have their answer in the /doc/README.txt file. Unfortunately, there is no trace of that file on the packages that I downloaded. Nor is there any trace of a /dosemu/users file. Meanwhile, my thanks for the prompt replies to my initial query. Felix Karpfen -- Felix Karpfen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
