linux-msdos-digest Sunday, January 23 2000 Volume 01 : Number 164
In this issue:
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From: Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 08:52:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: freedos, dosemu, WordPerfect 5.1
I've been experimenting with FreeDos Beta 3. Here are some
observations. Some of them may need some correction, so I hope more
knowledgeable users will comment.
1. freedos seems to assign hd letters differently from msdos. I have
three msdos partitions.
msdos C: is freedos C:
msdos D: is freedos E:
msdos E: is freedos D:
2. I can't get the freedos disk to install freedos on drive D: or E:.
I haven't tried C: because I don't want to change that partition.
3. Under dosemu, freedos doesn't interact correctly with WordPerfect
5.1. When I exit WP, it sends me a message indicating that WP thinks
it's running from a floppy rather than the hd, something like "insert
second floppy disk". With msdos 6.2 under dosemu, WP function as
expected so far.
4. Under dosemu, I can't make freedos run WP correctly when WP is
placed in a second hdimage created by mkfatimage16. Again, WP thinks
it is running from floppy drives.
5. When booted natively with a floppy, freedos does everything as
expected, except for the drive numbering order noted in #1 above. I'd
say the freedos project is really making progress.
Any comments or corrections?
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
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From: Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 13:04:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject: abort when ^c in a dir/p
I am using the latest Debian, with version 0.98.8.0 and DOS-C version 1.0
Beta 2.
Heres is the error message:
ERROR: unexpected CPU exception 0x06 errorcode: 0x00000000 while in vm86
(DOS)
Program=sigsegv.c, Line=246
EIP: 2000:000056fa ESP: 2000:00001f54 VFLAGS(b): 00000 00000000 10000010
EAX: aa558ce9 EBX: 00005ec4 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 0000c400 VFLAGS(h): 00000082
ESI: 0000dc12 EDI: 000008ab EBP: 000076ff DS: 2000 ES: 2604 FS: 0000 GS:
0000
FLAGS: SF IF RF VM IOPL: 0
STACK: 98 0e 12 dc 73 01 ff 76 f8 56 -> c4 5e 04 26 8a 47 01 98 50 b8
OPS : 0c 00 00 c7 06 cc 0c 00 00 33 -> db 8e c3 33 db 8c 06 ca 0c 89
db8ec333 2000:56fa esc 19,[bp+33C3]
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From: Rossen Karpuzov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:53:36 +0200 (EET)
Subject: Problems in video mode
Hello
I have doseu v0.98.8.0 and can't run in video mode.
mine card is s3/64v+ with 2mb ram.
Rossen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Ott)
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 22:19:31 +0100
Subject: (Kein Betreff)
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From: Stefan Harmuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 15:49:20 +0100
Subject: problem on creating files
Hi!
I've a problem when i try to create files (e.g. with 'copy con foo.txt') on a
drive emulated by emufs.sys
The error-message is always 'File not found - foo.txt' - '0 file(s) copied'.
I used a Windows98-StartupDisk to create the hdimage.
Any solutions? ;)
cYa
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From: Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:57:36 -0500 (EST)
Subject: FreeDos, Beta3 and Beta4 and dosemu
I have been testing FreeDos with dosemu.
Setup:
Mandrake 6.0
dosemu-0.98.8-1
/etc/dosemu.conf entry: $_hdimage = "freedos"
Directory: /var/lib/dosemu/freedos/
bin -> /mnt/E/bin/ #slink to dos formatted partition
doc -> /mnt/E/doc/ #with freedos directories
help ->/mnt/E/help/
In order to get dosemu running with FreeDos, I must use either a real
floppy or a "vbootfloppy". Whichever way, the results are consistent.
FreeDos Beta3 sees as drive C:\ the .../freedos directory. The
directories and files are accessible. This was a surprise; the dosemu
documentation suggested to me that this was not possible. Of course
freedos under dosemu cannot be booted from the .../freedos directory, but
with a virtual floppy for booting, it comes close to msdos under dosemu,
which I have also tested.
FreeDos Beta4 fails to see the directories and files under .../freedos. I
don't understand why this capability was lost in an update.
Have I gone wrong somewhere? Has anybody else studied the dosemu-freedos
combination, Beta3 and Beta4.
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, NC
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From: Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 15:16:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: xtermdos can't find IBM VGA font
How can I make xtermdos find the ibm vga font? That is "vga.pcf" right?
When I start xtermdos, it squawks thusly:
Hey...I could not find the IBM VGA font for xwindows!
To install the VGA font, go into the DOSEMU
source directory and type:
sh xinstallvgafont
Starting xdosemu with default font. If not using the VGA font, you should
use the latin character set instead of the PC character set in
/etc/dosemu.conf.
[snip ends]
But, when I start an xterm like this: xterm -fn vga &
It doesn't complain. "vga.pcf" is located at
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga.pcf
and it is listed in the fonts.dir as: "vga.pcf vga"
It is *not* listed in fonts.alias in that directory. Is that the problem?
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, NC
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From: Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:54:01 -0800 (PST)
Subject: wanting to make simcity 2000 run
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I got as far as the beginning of the installation screen... then it locks up,
hard. Nothing I can do. Anyone else gotten Dosemu to do graphical things
for them? I've heard of people running Duke 3D on it, which is why
I'm hopeful about Simcity. *crosses fingers* If anyone has done it, let
me know. In this day and age, its probably a paltry offer, but I can offer
shell on my 2.2Mbps ADSL connection up full time in exchange.
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From: Jesper Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:30:24 +0100
Subject: DOSemu and MaxThink
I'm trying to run the outliner MaxThink under DOSemu. On the latest
0.98 build it simply freezes, on 0.99.13 it crashes.
Anyone have any idea why? MaxThink is a DOS app that runs well in a
Win98 window or under raw DOS.
I use DOSemu 0.99.13 (the newest I could find), the DOS is from
Windows 98 and works very well otherwise, I run AGENDA and other apps
just fine.
Jesper
Output from DOSemu on crash:
ERROR: unexpected CPU exception 0x06 errorcode: 0x00000000 while in vm86 (DOS)
Program=sigsegv.c, Line=250
EIP: 3440:0000b10d ESP: 49f6:0000ff8c VFLAGS(b): 00000 01000010 01000110
EAX: 0000000a EBX: 0000000a ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00001b7d VFLAGS(h): 00004246
ESI: 00001000 EDI: 000049f6 EBP: 00000003 DS: 49f6 ES: 06c8 FS: 0000 GS: 0000
FLAGS: PF ZF IF NT RF VM VIF IOPL: 0
STACK: f6 49 03 00 09 b1 40 34 46 42 -> c8 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
OPS : 47 b8 0a 00 cd 31 72 3a 8b d8 -> 0f 02 cb 8a cd 80 c9 08 2a ed
0f02cb 3440:b10d lar cx,bx
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From: Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:59:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: DOSemu and MaxThink
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Jesper Anderson wrote:
> I'm trying to run the outliner MaxThink under DOSemu. On the latest
> 0.98 build it simply freezes, on 0.99.13 it crashes.
>
Here is some text from EMUfailure.txt that might help.
Check with "strings <program.exe> | less" if the programm contains
some of these keywords vcpi, pharlap and win32s. . . [they prob. won't
work under dosemu]
Sorry about the other msg, it was a slip of the finger!
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, NC
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From: Jesper Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 04:26:22 +0100
Subject: Re: DOSemu and MaxThink
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 09:59:23PM -0500, Hugh Lawson wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Jesper Anderson wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to run the outliner MaxThink under DOSemu. On the latest
> > 0.98 build it simply freezes, on 0.99.13 it crashes.
> >
>
> Here is some text from EMUfailure.txt that might help.
>
> Check with "strings <program.exe> | less" if the programm contains
> some of these keywords vcpi, pharlap and win32s. . . [they prob. won't
> work under dosemu]
Thanks for your reply.
It seems MaxThink searches for a VCPI host and uses one of found. Can
this be the culprit, and if so, is there any way around it?
I also found this string:
Blinker 3.20 DOS Extender
Copyright (c) Assembler Software Manufacturers Inc, 1992-95.
It's not a Windows program; it runs on my DOS 5 machine. I tried
disabling and enabling all types of memory in DOSemu, but to no avail.
Jesper
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made
of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts
is not necessarily science.
- -- Henri Poincaire
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marcelo_R._M=F3dolo?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:14:57 -0200
Subject: dosemu-nfs
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I am a brazilian guy, and I don`t now english very well...
I have 2 PCs, and a old program in Clipper...
In "PC1" I have a directory exported by NFS
In "PC2" I use "mount servidor:/publico /mnt/publico" and every things =
is ok, I can see the files, copy and etc...
So I do "dos",Ok, "lredir d: linux\fs\mnt\publico" and every things is =
ok, I can see files, etc... but when i try exec a binary file I heve... =
Access Denied !!!
What can I do ????
Thanks
Marcelo Rezende M=F3dolo, Brasil =20
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From: Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:31:31 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: DOSemu and MaxThink
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jesper Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 09:59:23PM -0500, Hugh Lawson wrote:
> > Check with "strings <program.exe> | less" if the programm contains
> > some of these keywords vcpi, pharlap and win32s. . . [they prob. won't
> > work under dosemu]
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> It seems MaxThink searches for a VCPI host and uses one of found. Can
> this be the culprit, and if so, is there any way around it?
Hi Jesper,
This is beyond my knowledge. I ran into this with a dos telephone book
search program. It just wouldn't work under dosemu.
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, NC
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From: Lucas Brasilino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:44:35 -0200
Subject: Re: dosemu-nfs
> "Marcelo R. M�dolo" wrote:
>
> I am a brazilian guy, and I don`t now english very well...
> I have 2 PCs, and a old program in Clipper...
> In "PC1" I have a directory exported by NFS
> In "PC2" I use "mount servidor:/publico /mnt/publico" and every things
> is ok, I can see the files, copy and etc...
> So I do "dos",Ok, "lredir d: linux\fs\mnt\publico" and every things is
> ok, I can see files, etc... but when i try exec a binary file I
> heve... Access Denied !!!
> What can I do ????
> Thanks
> Marcelo Rezende M�dolo, Brasil
Hi Marcelo:
I'm also brazilian and I'm very happy that using of Linux plus various
Open Source Softwares is growing very quickly here in Brazil.
Well, it looks like your DOSEMU user has not reading permission at the
NFS-mounted directory. Check it out.
Please, send us detailed information about your problem.
regards
Lucas Brasilino
Linux Brasil Sistemas Ltda
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From: Andreas Bach Aaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:51:21 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: dosemu-nfs
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Marcelo R. M�dolo wrote:
> I am a brazilian guy, and I don`t now english very well...
> I have 2 PCs, and a old program in Clipper...
> In "PC1" I have a directory exported by NFS
> In "PC2" I use "mount servidor:/publico /mnt/publico" and every things is ok, I can
>see the files, copy and etc...
> So I do "dos",Ok, "lredir d: linux\fs\mnt\publico" and every things is ok, I can see
>files, etc... but when i try exec a binary file I heve... Access Denied !!!
> What can I do ????
Use a stable version of dosemu instead of the developer version you
probably use.
>From the 0.98.8 Changelog
From Steffen and Benjamin C. W. Sittler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- work around Linux-2.2.x's NFS locking problems
(in fact ignoring locks on NFS)
NFS locking is NOT ignored in the developerversion RedHat 6.0 and others
have put into their distributions. I have fallen into this as well and you
would have found the answer by looking in the archive for this list (I
asked the same question 1-2 months ago).
Regards,
Andreas Bach Aaen
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From: Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:03:26 -0500
Subject: RE: Pass-Through Printing via Telnet in DOSEMU?
Hello,
I have finally been able to take the time to try the pass through printing.
I used your Gregory) instructions to create the passprt (see note at end of
attached file) file, and then the instruction below to make it work through
DOS EMU, and it works great. I don't get the cutoff problem that you where
getting in your clipper program.
Now my users will be able to print to any printer in the world, plus, if
they have fax software, they will be able to fax their jobs directly with
out wasting any paper or making trips to the fax.
Thanks for your help. If you need any details about my configuration, let
me know.
Matthew E. Nuzum
IS Director
Florida Vacation Accommodations
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 2:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pass-Through Printing via Telnet in DOSEMU?
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:32:31 Tasos Chronis wrote:
>Hi
>
>In the printer section of global.conf it have something
>like that :
>
>
>if (strlen($_printer))
> foreach $xxx ($LIST_DELIM, $_printer)
> $xxx = "'/usr/bin/webps ",$REMOTE_HOST,"'";
> printer { options "< %s" command $$xxx timeout 40 }
> done
>endif
>
>My global.conf file is included. Don't remember if I did any other
>changes
>for REMOTE_HOST.
>
Learning from how you modified the global.conf file, I did the following to
my global.conf file
if (strlen($_printer))
foreach $xxx ($LIST_DELIM, $_printer)
$xxx = "'/usr/bin/passprt '";
printer { options "%s" command $$xxx timeout 40 }
done
endif
Anyhow this seems to route the printout to the local telnet printer, however
for some reason each print jobs bombs (ie. only a portion of the job gets
the the local telnet printer and the rest seems to get lost)
I then decided to change the global.conf file and change the printer line
with the following:
printer { file "filename"}
Upon exiting DOSEMU, at the shell prompt I then do: passprt "filename"
When I do this I get the entire printjob printing at the local telnet
printer. Anybody know why this would be happening. It seems somehow DOSEMU
can send the printout to a file, but something gets lost when I get DOSEMU
to pipe it to the executable script. Anybody have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance
GP Doyle
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Passprt file in /usr/bin
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From: "Nicolas Blais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 18:48:54 EST
Subject: Dosemu is nice but...
Nice job with dosemu....um...do you think it works in FreeBSD? It would be
nice if there was a port for it. I'm guessing it would not be much harder
than Linux since most Linux stuff works in FreeBSD (with the Linux emulator)
and some apps have been recoded for FreeBSD.
Anyways, please tell me if it would work.
Thank you!
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From: Bill Swisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 16:17:54 -0900
Subject: dosemu oddity...
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Howdy,
I'm experiencing a strange thing with dosemu.
1. As user bill, seems to work fine from a standard tty terminal (dos
command). Any messages disappear when I kick it off.
2. As user root, seems to work fine from a standard xterminal (xdos
command). Following are messages which show up.
kernel CPU speed is 300685097 Hz
Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
3. As user bill, doesn't work from xterminal (xdos command). Following
are messages which show up.
Running unpriviledged in low feature mode
kernel CPU speed is 300685097 Hz
Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
no console
ERROR: can't open /dev/hda1 for read nor write: Permission
denied (you should never see this message)
This is the standard dosemu as shipped with RedHat 6.1 on an AMD
K6-2/300. ID'd as dosemu-0.99.13.0
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you
want the other person.
-- Margaret Anderson
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Howdy,
<br>I'm experiencing a strange thing with dosemu.
<p>1. As user bill, seems to work fine from a standard tty terminal
(dos command). Any messages disappear when I kick it off.
<br>2. As user root, seems to work fine from a standard xterminal
(xdos command). Following are messages which show up.
<br> kernel CPU speed is 300685097
Hz
<br> Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
<br>3. As user bill, doesn't work from xterminal (xdos command).
Following are messages which show up.
<br> Running unpriviledged in
low feature mode
<br> kernel CPU speed is 300685097
Hz
<br> Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
<br> no console
<br> ERROR: can't open /dev/hda1
for read nor write: Permission denied (you should never see this message)
<p>This is the standard dosemu as shipped with RedHat 6.1 on an AMD K6-2/300.
ID'd as dosemu-0.99.13.0
<br>
<pre>--
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you
want the other person.
-- Margaret Anderson</pre>
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From: Michael Matson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:16:54 -0800
Subject: Mtool 3.9.1 & disk images
Grr. . .
I just tried to copy a file into a disk image and Mcopy grunged both
the file and (apparently) the disk header table. It was probably a
stupid mistake, since DOSemu 0.99 was running at the time.
Anyway, now Mtools won't access the disk image as it says the Media
Descriptor is bad. And, from what Mcopy and Mdir say, it *is*
bad. It's saying it is 00/f8.
However, Minfo says the media descriptor 0xf8; and DOSemu still
accesses the image just fine and everything on it runs just fine.
Anybody ever seen this and know how to repair it?
I also just discovered that in the process of grunging the file, Mcopy
also created a bad fat entry. I now have two copies of the file in the
disk image -- the good one (which I got there by copying to a dos
floppy disk, and then copied to the "hard disk" from inside DOSemu),
and the grunged one, which apparently programs can't see. Neither the
ZIP archives made since, nor the software, seem to detect this grunged
file. 4dos shows, it though, when you run a DIR command.
Cheers!
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From: David Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:02:08 -0800
Subject: Need to know VBIOS addr.
Help! My video card mftr. refuses to give me the address and size of my
VBIOS, which I need to run graphics apps. My card is a S3 ViRGE DX/GX.
Is there some sort of utility I can use to look up this information.
Thanks in advance.
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From: Dave Aronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 05:50:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Mtool 3.9.1 & disk images
Michael Matson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just tried to copy a file into a disk image and Mcopy grunged both
> the file and (apparently) the disk header table. It was probably a
> stupid mistake, since DOSemu 0.99 was running at the time.
...
> However, Minfo says the media descriptor 0xf8; and DOSemu still
> accesses the image just fine and everything on it runs just fine.
>
> Anybody ever seen this and know how to repair it?
Haven't seen it myself. However, since you can access it just fine,
and run things off it (implying that the data itself isn't grunged),
maybe you could lredir a drive to a safe place, copy everything out,
recreate the hdimage, and copy everything back in.
=====
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From: Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:29:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Mtool 3.9.1 & disk images
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Michael Matson wrote:
> Grr. . .
>
> I just tried to copy a file into a disk image and Mcopy grunged both
> the file and (apparently) the disk header table. It was probably a
> stupid mistake, since DOSemu 0.99 was running at the time.
I recommend you use dosemu-0.98.8-1 instead of 0.99. I had troubles with
0.99 also, which the last time I checked was not yet classified as a
stable release by www.dosemu.org.
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, NC
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From: Galen Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:24:52 -0800
Subject: How can I turn off screen clear and cursor positioning?
I'm using dosemu-0.98.8.0 and I would like to turn off the initial screen
clear and other use of termcap/terminfo. I'm running plain old command
line tools (ti dsp code generation tools) and I want to minimize the
disruption of my xterm. I don't want the screen cleared and I want to
be able to use the scroll bar to look at the results of compiles and such.
How can I do this? I tried unsetting TERM and TERMCAP, but dosemu complains.
thanks,
galen
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From: Chris Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:27:31 -0500
Subject: keys
I have been trying to run an application in dosemu that requires the use
of keys such as ctrl-c, ctrl-break, ctrl-[cursers], and shift-tab. Is
it possible to configure dosemu so that these keys work with my
applications? If so, who might be able to help me?
Ultimately, I would like to access this old dos program remotely via
telnet. I understand that, even if I get keys to work from the console,
some keys may need to be mapped through telnet. This is another area
where I could use some help.
Thanks in advance for any assistance possible.
Chris Kennedy
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From: Catalin Bucur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:08:05 +0200
Subject: Re: keys
Chris Kennedy wrote:
>
> I have been trying to run an application in dosemu that requires the use
> of keys such as ctrl-c, ctrl-break, ctrl-[cursers], and shift-tab. Is
> it possible to configure dosemu so that these keys work with my
> applications? If so, who might be able to help me?
Modify in /etc/dosemu.conf:
$_rawkeyboard = (1) # bypass normal keyboard input, maybe dangerous
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From: Jesper Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:25:42 +0100
Subject: RTC on suspend/resume
I've got a problem when running DOSemu on my notebook. Whenever I
suspend the notebook and later resume it, the time in DOSemu is
wrecked. It simply loses the time spent in suspend mode.
This is very annoying, as I use Lotus Agenda as my PIM and like to
keep it running.
I've tried both 0.98 and 0.99 versions with no difference.
If noone knows how to remedy this, maybe someone can give me a pointer
as to where in the source time is handled? I poked about a bit but
found only timers of various kinds, no RTC stuff.
Thanks for your time,
Jesper
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From: Marcelo Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 07:20:11 -0200
Subject: dosemu lost unit linux
Hello.
I am with problems with DOSEMU. I accomplished a series of
tests and I verified that the dosemu after some time loses
the access the unit created by LREDIR or EMUFS.SYS. The test
was a looping dir inside of the unit, that doesn't list
anything or just a file after some seconds.
Used configuration:
RedHat 6.0.
hd_image: DRDOS
dosemu: doaemu-0.99.13-1
Could you help me??
Thank you.
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From: Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:32:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: xtermdos can't find IBM VGA font (fwd)
How can I make xtermdos and xdos find the ibm vga font? That is "vga.pcf"
right?
When I start xtermdos, it squawks thusly:
Hey...I could not find the IBM VGA font for xwindows!
To install the VGA font, go into the DOSEMU
source directory and type:
sh xinstallvgafont
Starting xdosemu with default font. If not using the VGA font, you should
use the latin character set instead of the PC character set in
/etc/dosemu.conf.
[snip ends]
But, when I start an xterm like this: xterm -fn vga &
It doesn't complain. "vga.pcf" is located at
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga.pcf
and it is listed in the fonts.dir as: "vga.pcf vga"
It is *not* listed in fonts.alias in that directory. Is that the problem?
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, NC
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From: Chris Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:04:27 -0500
Subject: Re: keys
I managed to make shift-tab work for backtab by putting kcbt=\E[Z and cbt=\E[Z
in a custom terminfo entry (modified vt100). However, I still would like to
make some other keys work in dosemu:
ctrl-home
ctrl-end
ctrl-pageup
ctrl-pagedown
ctrl-cursor up
ctrl-cursor down
ctrl-cursor left
ctrl-cursor right
ctrl-pause (break)
There are no "capkeys" for "terminfo" associated to any keys pressed with the
control key depressed, at least that I can see. Is it possible to map these
through from a terminal? All such combinations seem to work from the linux
console (running dosemu). How can I make this work?
Also, ctrl-c is necessary for the dos program that I'm trying to run in
dosemu. It works (sort of) but strangely. When ctrl-c is pressed, nothing
happens until another key is pressed (eg. space bar). Also, the second key
pressed (i.e. space bar) is transmitted through. It seems as though the
ctrl-c doesn't occur until that other key is pressed. Then the other key is
still in the buffer.
Once again, any help/information that someone could give me would be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you.
Chris Kennedy
Catalin Bucur wrote:
> Chris Kennedy wrote:
> >
> > I have been trying to run an application in dosemu that requires the use
> > of keys such as ctrl-c, ctrl-break, ctrl-[cursers], and shift-tab. Is
> > it possible to configure dosemu so that these keys work with my
> > applications? If so, who might be able to help me?
>
> Modify in /etc/dosemu.conf:
> $_rawkeyboard = (1) # bypass normal keyboard input, maybe dangerous
>
> --
> Catalin Bucur mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hardware Engineer - Electronic Computing Centre
> Sidex S.A. - Galati - Romania
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From: James Hiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 100 03:16:31 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Problem with certain kernels and DOSEMU
Hi.
I've been running dosemu 0.98.X, and have been moving along on the
2.3.X linux kernel series. When I got to linux 2.3.28, dosemu stopped
working (pretty sure it was .28; might be .27 or .29; I can check to
be absolutely certain if this general behavior hasn't yet been reported).
All is well when at the dos command prompt. There are two primary dos
apps that I use, and these have been fine. But now, with simply going
to kernel 2.3.28 (about), right after either of these apps kick off,
dosemu simply dies and returns me to a linux command prompt. I have
turned on dosemu debugging, but I don't get anything back.
Is there a known issue with kernels after about .27 or so? I had been
running 2.3.18 for quite some time with no problem, and then when I started
up the tree to the more recent ones, ran into this failure. I back-pedaled
a few kernels, and the change in behavior seems to be between .27 and
.28. I also tried using dosemu-0.99.13, but get the same failure.
Any help would be great. Please send a copy directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
since I'm not sure if I've set myself up correctly on this list.
Thx!
jbh
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From: Reinhard Karcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:09:11 +0100
Subject: dosemu lost unit linux
On Fry, 14 Jan 2000 Marcelo Souza wrote:
> I am with problems with DOSEMU. I accomplished a series of
> tests and I verified that the dosemu after some time loses
> the access the unit created by LREDIR or EMUFS.SYS. The test
> was a looping dir inside of the unit, that doesn't list
> anything or just a file after some seconds.
>
> Used configuration:
> RedHat 6.0.
> hd_image: DRDOS
> dosemu: doaemu-0.99.13-1
>
> Could you help me??
I can't confirm. I use dosemu and lredir 12 hours a day and have
never seen such problems in the last 3 years.
SuSE 4.3 - 6.3
dosmemu 0.64 - 0.99.13 (from the dosemu.org tarball)
NOVELL DOS 7, latest update (15)
Did you run your test with a batch file? You could post your
dosemu.conf (stripped of all comment lines) and your test.
Reinhard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:36:08 -0500
Subject: extended characters
Please Help:
I am trying to get extended charaters to work with dosemu/linux. I have a
dos application that needs to use CTRL-<UpArrow> and other extended characters.
Is this possible? Can you please help?
Thanks,
Bryan Coleman
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From: "Joaquin Ordieres Mere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:34:12 +0100
Subject: a dumb question, but ...
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Hello to everybody
This is probably a dumb question but i can`t solve it.
I'm using red hat 6.0 and i run dosemu 0.98.8-1
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export g
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config.sys -x .
/scan.exe -o nocomcom -o noapp
) with many errors
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From: Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:04:03 -0600
Subject: RTC clock troubles
I am runnig dosemu 0.98.8 with DR-DOS 7.03 on a Mandrake 6.1 system.
My system clock is set to GMT with appriate setings for linux to
translate to local time (US central). The problem is that dosemu
reports GMT not local time.
Is this a bug or have I just missed something in the dosemu
configuration?
Russell Poyner
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From: Russell Poyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:11:11 -0600
Subject: Re: RTC clock troubles
I have a work-around for now.
I put time and date commands in autoexec.bat and start dosemu with:
xdos -I 'keystroke '\"`date +%H:%M`\\r`date +%m-%d-%Y`\\r\"
which sets the dos time to local on startup.
Would still like to know if anyone has a better solution though.
Thanks.
Russell Poyner
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> I am runnig dosemu 0.98.8 with DR-DOS 7.03 on a Mandrake 6.1 system.
>
> My system clock is set to GMT with appriate setings for linux to
> translate to local time (US central). The problem is that dosemu
> reports GMT not local time.
>
> Is this a bug or have I just missed something in the dosemu
> configuration?
>
> Russell Poyner
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Michael D. Stemle Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:16:39 -0600 (CST)
Subject: How to compile?
How do I compile stuff for the DOSEMU?
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From: Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:49:38 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: How to compile?
Michael D. Stemle Jr. writes:
> How do I compile stuff for the DOSEMU?
>
"Stuff for Dosemu" are 16 and 32-bit extender Dos programms. Compile
on DOS/Windows with any Dos Compiler. Borland has their ancient tools
for download in the "museum". DJGPP is another option. You can
compile DJGPP to run on Linux and produce DOS tools too.
Bye
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From: Alberto Vignani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:59:42 +0100
Subject: Re: Problem with certain kernels and DOSEMU (LAST RETRY)
On Sun, 16 Jan 100 03:16:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>All is well when at the dos command prompt. There are two primary dos
>apps that I use, and these have been fine. But now, with simply going
>to kernel 2.3.28 (about), right after either of these apps kick off,
>dosemu simply dies and returns me to a linux command prompt. I have
>turned on dosemu debugging, but I don't get anything back.
These two apps are triggering a bug in the EMS code (or a feature in the kernel?):
mmap 0xe0000 returns "no such device".
I'm looking into it, perhaps this depends from the latest changes to mm/mmap.c
and to the struct file_operations in fs.h (there's only one point in mmap.c
where -ENODEV is returned; I suspect that f_op->mmap is null in our case).
Alberto
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From: "Michael D. Stemle Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:02:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: How to compile?
thanks
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Michael D. Stemle Jr. writes:
> > How do I compile stuff for the DOSEMU?
> >
>
> "Stuff for Dosemu" are 16 and 32-bit extender Dos programms. Compile
> on DOS/Windows with any Dos Compiler. Borland has their ancient tools
> for download in the "museum". DJGPP is another option. You can
> compile DJGPP to run on Linux and produce DOS tools too.
>
> Bye
>
> Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: -q95- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:59:20 -0400 (AST)
Subject: DOSEMU and CD-ROM problem
Ive managed to get DOSEMU to work by compiling, and then installing
OpenDOS 7.02 RPM file on Caldera's website.
First of all, when I start up DOS I have no idea where those files are on
my linux file system. I think they may be built into the OpenDOS hdimage
file (which is 7megs!)
I cannot edit the autoexec.bat, nor the config.sys files or anything (they
dont open up in OpenDOS's 'edit' text editor). So I have no idea how else
to configure the CD-ROM to work.
I can always lredir my linux /mnt/cdrom but this is causing problems for
software that require my CDROM. For isntalnce, I cant play Warcraft 2 (it
keeps asking for my CDROM). Anyone know how to fix this? The reason I
installed DOSEMU was to play war2 :> If I could only find the war2 cd
crack on the net that might solve also :>
- -Quentin
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[BSc. CS Major] - ["Wanna battle, you must be crazy"]
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From: Alberto Vignani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:20:10 +0100
Subject: Dosemu EMS broken by /proc/self/mem changes (Was:Problem with certain
kernels and DOSEMU)
On Sun, 16 Jan 100 03:16:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on linux-msdos:
>All is well when at the dos command prompt. There are two primary dos
>apps that I use, and these have been fine. But now, with simply going
>to kernel 2.3.28 (about), right after either of these apps kick off,
>dosemu simply dies and returns me to a linux command prompt. I have
>turned on dosemu debugging, but I don't get anything back.
mem_mmap was removed from proc_mem_operations in 2.3.27. This is a kernel
feature.
mmapping /proc/self/mem is no more possible, and the call returns
- -ENODEV because f_op->mmap is always NULL (see mm/mmap.c).
This means that DOS programs using EMS will fail on kernels
>2.3.26; the memory mapping used in the dosemu EMS code should be
reworked for 2.4.
If you need to use such programs, please (sigh) use kernel 2.2.
Alberto
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From: Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:13:44 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: DOSEMU and CD-ROM problem
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, -q95- wrote:
> First of all, when I start up DOS I have no idea where those files are on
> my linux file system. I think they may be built into the OpenDOS hdimage
> file (which is 7megs!)
On my system at /var/lib/dosemu/dexe, is a script "do_mtools". You can
use this script to run an mtools command on a hdimage.
for example
cd /var/lib/dosemu
dexe/do_mtools /var/lib/dosemu/hdimage.test mdir W:
see dosemu doc README.txt for instructions on do_mtools.
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Michael D. Stemle Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:04:52 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: How to compile?
Where might I find DJGPP?
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Michael D. Stemle Jr. wrote:
>
> thanks
>
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
>
> > Michael D. Stemle Jr. writes:
> > > How do I compile stuff for the DOSEMU?
> > >
> >
> > "Stuff for Dosemu" are 16 and 32-bit extender Dos programms. Compile
> > on DOS/Windows with any Dos Compiler. Borland has their ancient tools
> > for download in the "museum". DJGPP is another option. You can
> > compile DJGPP to run on Linux and produce DOS tools too.
> >
> > Bye
> >
> > Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
> > --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
> >
>
>
- --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 23 Jan 2000 08:18:44 -0600
Subject: Re: Dosemu EMS broken by /proc/self/mem changes (Was:Problem with certain
kernels and DOSEMU)
Alberto Vignani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 100 03:16:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on linux-msdos:
>
> >All is well when at the dos command prompt. There are two primary dos
> >apps that I use, and these have been fine. But now, with simply going
> >to kernel 2.3.28 (about), right after either of these apps kick off,
> >dosemu simply dies and returns me to a linux command prompt. I have
> >turned on dosemu debugging, but I don't get anything back.
>
> mem_mmap was removed from proc_mem_operations in 2.3.27. This is a kernel
> feature.
> mmapping /proc/self/mem is no more possible, and the call returns
> -ENODEV because f_op->mmap is always NULL (see mm/mmap.c).
> This means that DOS programs using EMS will fail on kernels
> >2.3.26; the memory mapping used in the dosemu EMS code should be
> reworked for 2.4.
Well it's needed it for a long time...
POSIX shared memory should be in 2.4, which is what we really wanted
in the first place. i.e. Mmappable shared mem.
If anyone wants to takes a stab at implementing it.
We just get the file operations of open,close, truncate (for sizing),
and mmap. And we should probably have a fall back to normal files
anyway.
Eric
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From: Laurynas Biveinis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:03:35 +0200
Subject: Re: How to compile?
"Michael D. Stemle Jr." wrote:
>
> Where might I find DJGPP?
www.delorie.com/djgpp/
Laurynas Biveinis
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From: Reinhard Karcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:35:35 +0100
Subject: Re: DOSEMU and CD-ROM problem
On Fry, 21 Jan 2000 -q95- wrote:
> I cannot edit the autoexec.bat, nor the config.sys files or anything (they
> dont open up in OpenDOS's 'edit' text editor). So I have no idea how else
> to configure the CD-ROM to work.
>
> I can always lredir my linux /mnt/cdrom but this is causing problems for
> software that require my CDROM. For isntalnce, I cant play Warcraft 2 (it
> keeps asking for my CDROM). Anyone know how to fix this? The reason I
> installed DOSEMU was to play war2 :> If I could only find the war2 cd
> crack on the net that might solve also :>
>
Look at README.txt in the doc-directory of dosemu and read chapter 8.
Reinhard
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