On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Alberto Olindo wrote:

> 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 ...

try

  dos ... -I 'video {none}' | special_filter

were special_filter should be a programm that back converts DOSish output.

> 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?

 1. Read doc/README*

 2. make sure to let dosemu run non-suid-root (else its a security risc)

 3. fiddle with $_hogthreshold to take away CPU power from DOSEMU

Hans
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