Hi Bart,

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 08:44:07PM +0100, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> 
> > Here is my script to generate a dosemu config.
> >
> > Obviously it needs a lot of work to be really flexible and useful (I
> > would like to tie it in with the app database) but I just wanted
> > opinions on it. :)
> >
> > http://www.icequake.net/cgi2/dosemuconf.pl
> 
> Looks nice! Just a few comments -- it may be better to look
> forwards towards 1.2.0 rather than back to 1.0.2.

Yeah, I designed it so that configs for different versions can be easily
generated.  But, that functionality isn't implemented quite yet :)

> emubat is no longer there. It was never really reliable and there are
> other methods to use an alternative to autoexec.bat.
> 
> hogthreshold -- yes I know it's a little confusing but "0" means "full
> tilt", 1 is "be nice" and higher then means "less nice". Think of "0" as
> "infinity" here. Also the values can be higher than 15.
> 
> There are a few settings that don't apply to xdosemu (such as rawkeyboard,
> mouse settings, native speaker).
> 
> keybint is obsolete, gone, just like "videoportaccess" (graphics does
> that).
> 
> SECURITY: all this stuff is obsolete too. Use sudo.
> 
> Sound: we have sb16 support now (in 1.1.5.2).
> 
> rdtsc may be overridden by .dosemurc.
> 
> If you want to specify different hdimages to be used for restricted
> access, do that here. If this is empty, the hdimages from
> "hdimage" will be used for all users. (FIXME is that right?)
> -- also gone. the idea was that a long time ago DOSEMU could only run
> suid-root, so you could have a class of restricted users in dosemu.users
> that were only allowed to execute certain DOS programs. Right now the
> non-suid-root DOSEMU is a lot more powerful so this option has become
> pointless.

Ok, thanks for all the fixed comments.

> One thing that would be good is to merge this with the tcl/tk
> configuration utilities in the setup directory (run ./setup.tk etc
> there). The problem is that these tools suffer from severe bitrot now
> so any help would be very welcome to get these up and going again.

I should be able to take my same base script and make a perl/gtk script
from it.  I don't know any TCL so that would be a little bit of a
barrier potentially ;)

.dosemu/.dosemurc is the same format as /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf correct?

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253
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