Alistair MacDonald wrote: > > Sorry - I have no idea. I suggest that you try the MAILING LIST > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unless this DOS app was written to be run as a CGI I suspect it is > definately NON-trivial. well I HAVE managed to use a perl wrapper to call dosemu with a keybord statement which fires up my application. Obbviously this must produce the rusults on std out ... With some little black magic I parse in perl the dosemu output (which by the way is REALLY dirty (what about a --very_silent_nearly_shutup feature? just dont print anything perhaps with the ability to trap command.com stuff like the prompt ? the most annoying thing here is command echo, prompt and the dosemu fire-up) and get CLEAN result ... brilliant ;^) Unfortunately docs aren't really complete (translation too much of a newbie here to get the thing on my own...) on which VC dos dosemu end-up when it is called this way (a perl CGI open) ? Can this be harmful ? Os is it simply STDOUT ? If its not, it would be nice to have a way to tell dosemu it is running in the background. FinallyI was joking in respect to my small (and hopefuly solve) problem when I talked about mod_dosemu for Apache, but perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea... should be relatively simple . Enough. Only a last question. I am worried about performance and syncronization issues as this cgi manages insurance transactions and will probably be installed on various hosting services (which means on overloaded servers and nearby lots of other people...) Where can I find more info on what can be bad or how to fix it for dosemu performance and I/O? Thank you very much Alberto Olindo Assibit S.r.l. > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Alberto Olindo wrote: > > > Hi Alistair, > > > > I've been using dosemu really some time ago (0.54 or something like > > that) and it was a REALLY nice surprise to see how much better this are, > > when last month I faced the need to get this really old basic-written > > application for dos running under Linux as a CGI. > > > > Reimplementing or porting is impossible as I don't have source and the > > company who produces the software is not interested. > > > > So I'm trying to work the thing out in DOSemu :). > > > > Do you know if someone has already done this? As you might understand > > I'm no *nix wizard at all and I didn't find anything like that in the > > docs (why should anyone do such a strage thing in the first place, > > anyway ;) Perhaps it's trivial .. > > > > thanks alot anyway > > > > Alberto Olindo > >
