You wrote:
>I've got two problems:
>
>Problem one: while using a particular piece of control software for some
>equipment (written for DOS), I can't see any of the numbers 1 to 9 on the
>display. All alpha characters appear and so does the zero, but not 1 to 9.
>Slightly bad since this software displays almost all numbers. :)
Could you just tell wat kind of equipment ? Or is it about those nuclear
warheads nobody should know of ?
JK ...
Well, I have almost the same problem with a controling proggie for a
satellite dish.
That prog is called HRPT.EXE, and it can display all characters but no
numbers, dots or similar.
(No char with an ASCII value less than 0x40)
That is a SuperVGA (VESA) application, so is another kind of problem.
Does your proggie run in VESA too, or in plain text (CRT) mode ?
>Problem two: dosemu doesn't see my com ports. I have the conf file set to
>use /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 which are my two com ports. I've verified
>that linux (debian 2.1) sees them just fine and can communicate with them.
>But, within dosemu, they're not available.
I fixed this by giving in the $_ports = "" line in dosemu.conf the
access to the io ports for the serial uarts. That is because a lot of
proggies claim to be so genious to fiddle around with the hardware
themselves.
Do "cat /dev/ioports" to see where your serial port are (range of
ioports).
Then add for example $_ports = "range 0x2f8 , 0x2ff" to the dosemu.conf
(the ports will vary dependent on your hardware) .
A fine tool for getting to know the hardware you DOSEMU can "see" is
MSD.EXE by Micro$oft.
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