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I'm having a strange problem under dosemu 0.98.3 (98.4 won't compile due
to some missing "vga" symbol). There's some indication that this has been
fixed there, but I'm not sure. Basically, at midnight, the date will start
increasing rapidly... at lease once for every time the "date" command is
issued, and in some cases much faster than that, at the rate of months per
second. It seems to depend on what software is running at the time. The
BBS that I'm running under it ends up going a year every few seconds as
soon as midnight hits.
The time of day is not affected.
The fix is to set the date manually using the date command, and it will stop
increasing until the next night at midnight.
An example is below. Any help would be appreciated... it makes it tough
to run a BBS under dosemu when this happens :-)
System: Linux kelp 2.0.35 #1 Tue Sep 29 02:36:35 PDT 1998 i586 unknown
Architecture: i586
Libraries: /lib/libc.so.4.7.6 /lib/libc.so.5.4.44
UsrLibraries: /usr/lib/libc.a
GCC: gcc version 2.7.2.3
Ld: GNU ld version 2.8.2 (with BFD 2.8.1.0.23)
Dos version: MS-DOS 6.22
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Linux DOS emulator 0.98.3.0 $Date: 98/11/15 $
Last configured at Sun Dec 13 00:38:08 PST 1998 on linux
This is work in progress.
Please test against a recent version before reporting bugs and problems.
Bugs, Patches & New Code to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Starting MS-DOS...
[Host File System] drive D: is directory /home/hudson/DOS_D/
[dosemu EMS 4.0 driver installed]
C:\>ver
MS-DOS Version 6.22
C:\>time
Current time is 1:24:32.53a
Enter new time: 23:59:50
C:\>date (these date commands are about 5 seconds apart)
Current date is Sun 12-13-1998
Enter new date (mm-dd-yy):
C:\>date
Current date is Sun 12-13-1998
Enter new date (mm-dd-yy):
C:\>date
Current date is Tue 12-15-1998
Enter new date (mm-dd-yy):
C:\>date
Current date is Wed 12-16-1998
Enter new date (mm-dd-yy):
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