Mario,
I'm actively chasing a similar solution.
I'm getting some pretty interesting results by using a VNC X Server as the
display for an xdos session, and then viewing it on the win95 machines with
the VNC windows client. This works brilliantly, except for the fact that I
can't work out how to call xdos from the console, and direct its output to a
(remote) display. You apparently have to call it from an xterm window, or
something. I really want to work out how to spawn a new vncserver running
nothing but xdos.... no window manager, no xterm, etc. Any ideas anyone?
I have not yet tested this method over a slower link.
I recently mentioned in this list that I am putting together whatever
resources I can find regarding the building of a multi-user DOS terminal
server system which is network aware. If you don't mind, I'd like to add
you to my list of people with similar interests. I guess I am trying to put
together the beginnings of a Special Interests Group for this topic.
One idea that came to me while playing with Dosemu and VNC was the
possibility of grafting a raw VNC server into Dosemu. I think this would
work well, because it would allow us to run our DOS apps anywhere, be it via
the svga VNC client, the X VNC client, or even our Windows 95 VNC clients.
There would be no problems (as far as I can see - which is probably not very
far) with graphics modes, or keyboard scancode capturing. I believe there
are already some folks playing with some VNC server code that takes stdin
and stdout. This could be our starting point ???? Any comments from the
programming gurus? Am I dreaming?
Regards,
Darrin Wortlehock.
Aurum Computing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mario Moreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, 18 January 1999 20:25
Subject: Another (same) keyboard problem
>
>Hi,
>
>First of all, congratulations for this great software. Now for the problems
>:)
>
>I need to run an old accounting program for DOS remotelly. I setup a Linux
>machine that acts as fileserver (with samba) and installed dosemu 0.98.2
>(and .4 later). The accounting program runs over Baby/36 (a IBM system 36
>emulator for DOS), and it runs ok if I run it on the console with
>$_rawkeyboard = (on). If I run in X with xdos it also runs ok. But I need
to
>run it remotelly from a win95 machine connected to the Linux box with PPP.
>So I've telneted to the machine and start dosemu and the program but some
>keys doesn't work. The keys that doesnt work are the '-' and the '+' grey
>keys on the keypad. My guess is that the Baby/36 emulator uses that keys
>scancode to interpret them differentlly to emulate some keys on the
original
>IBM terminals. In telnet they just give the - and + signs (in console or
>xdos those keys move to the next field).
>
>How can I fix this? Is it possible to fix?
>
>Thankx
>
>
>--
>Mario Moreira
>DID/CET Portugal Telecom
>+351 34 8913200
