Re: [Freedos-user] How to specify where c drive lives?

2009-04-20 Thread Larry Alkoff
Ivan Baldo wrote:
Look at your  ~/.dosemurc files, are they the same?
HTH.


Yes they are exactly the same.

Larry


 
 El 20/04/09 13:23, Larry Alkoff escribió:
 My Kubuntu 8.04 LTS computer has the c: drive
 in ~/.dosemu/drive_c with symlinks to the directories I
 am interested in.  It works perfectly.

 My computer has this line in ~/.dosemu/boot.log:
 device: /home/lba/.dosemu/drives/c type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive C:
 device: /home/lba/.dosemu/drives/d type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive D:

 My wife has this different line in ~/.dosemu/boot.log:
 device: /etc/dosemu/drives/c type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive C:
 device: /home/kna/.dosemu/drives/d type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive D:

 Dosemu 1.4.0.0 seems to be ignoring the setup and symlinks in
 ~/.dosemu/drive_c.

 My wife's and my computer use the same version of Kubuntu with the same
 repositories so they should be exactly the same but they are not.

 How can I set dosemu to use ~/.dosemu/drive_c as my c: drive?

 Larry


 Sorry for the duplicate message.  I forgot to include freedos-user in 
 the cc: list.

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[Freedos-user] How to specify where c drive lives?

2009-04-20 Thread Larry Alkoff
My Kubuntu 8.04 LTS computer has the c: drive
in ~/.dosemu/drive_c with symlinks to the directories I
am interested in.  It works perfectly.

My computer has this line in ~/.dosemu/boot.log:
device: /home/lba/.dosemu/drives/c type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive C:
device: /home/lba/.dosemu/drives/d type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive D:

My wife has this different line in ~/.dosemu/boot.log:
device: /etc/dosemu/drives/c type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive C:
device: /home/kna/.dosemu/drives/d type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive D:

Dosemu 1.4.0.0 seems to be ignoring the setup and symlinks in
~/.dosemu/drive_c.

My wife's and my computer use the same version of Kubuntu with the same
repositories so they should be exactly the same but they are not.

How can I set dosemu to use ~/.dosemu/drive_c as my c: drive?

Larry


Sorry for the duplicate message.  I forgot to include freedos-user in 
the cc: list.

Larry

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Re: [Freedos-user] How to specify where c drive lives?

2009-04-20 Thread Larry Alkoff
Samuel Bronson wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Larry Alkoff labrad...@mindspring.com 
 wrote:
 My Kubuntu 8.04 LTS computer has the c: drive
 in ~/.dosemu/drive_c with symlinks to the directories I
 am interested in.  It works perfectly.

 My computer has this line in ~/.dosemu/boot.log:
 device: /home/lba/.dosemu/drives/c type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive C:
 device: /home/lba/.dosemu/drives/d type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive D:

 My wife has this different line in ~/.dosemu/boot.log:
 device: /etc/dosemu/drives/c type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive C:
 device: /home/kna/.dosemu/drives/d type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive D:

 Dosemu 1.4.0.0 seems to be ignoring the setup and symlinks in
 ~/.dosemu/drive_c.
 
 ... but do you both have the same things in ~/.dosemu/drives?
 


Hello Samuel.

Looks like I just did a dumb thing - again!

The soft line in ~/.dosemu/drives said:
   c - /home/me/.dosemu/drive_c
instead of
   c - /home/her/.dosemu/drive_c

and my eye must just have just glazed over the error.

Thank you for making me look closer.

Larry Alkoff

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Re: [Freedos-user] How to invoke dosemu when screen less than 25 lines high

2008-06-09 Thread Larry Alkoff
Eric Auer wrote:
 Hi :-)
 
 I always use dosemu with the large vga12x30.pcf font which my old
 eyes can see.
 Apparently dosemu is trying to use an 80x25 screen that won't fit.
 
 True, but usually it is better to use a BIOS style font anyway...
 
 How could I use stty to specify an 80x23 screen?
 
 Try this in DOS, using the graphical xdosemu:
 
 MODE CON lines=43
 MODE CON lines=16
 
 The first line selects EGA 350 row mode and the second
 line selects 8x16 font, giving you 80x21 chars of text.
 If you now maximize your DOS window, it should be quite
 easy to read :-).
 
 Eric
 

Hello Eric.

Thanks very much for your suggestion above.  It worked perfectly to give 
me a 78x21 screen.  Perhaps the missing two characters were crlf.

I see you wrote mode - very nicely done.

The screen is now perfectly readable.

I used to know about EGA back in the 70's or 80's but don't remember 
what an EGA 350 row mode means.

Does the second line use some magic and select the font below which is 
on my Kubuntu laptop?
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/8x16.pcf.gz

The 8x16pcf font appears to be about the same as the vga12x30 I was 
using but I can't see why.

Thank you for your help on this and some time ago on Nansi also.

Larry

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[Freedos-user] How to invoke dosemu when screen less than 25 lines high

2008-06-05 Thread Larry Alkoff
I'm using Kubuntu Hardy Heron on a Dell laptop which has a wide screen.
I always use dosemu with the large vga12x30.pcf font which my old eyes 
can see.

When I invoke dosemu, the bottom 2 or 3 lines are chopped off.

Apparently dosemu is trying to use an 80x25 screen that won't fit.

I know there is a way to change the screen parameters with
stty cols 80 rows 25.

How could I use stty to specify an 80x23 screen?
Or should I change something else like /etc/dosemu or ~/.dosemurc?

Larry

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Re: [Freedos-user] How to get colorized directory in a dosemu prompt?

2007-07-23 Thread Larry Alkoff
Problems solved:

The problem of getting colorized prompts and directory listings under 
4dos has been completely solved with nansi 4.0d.

Additionally, I now get black letters on a bright white background with 
nansi 4.0d using the patch below:

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Re: [Freedos-user] Using nansi.sys vs ansi.sys under 4dos

2007-07-23 Thread Larry Alkoff
Problems with nansi and 4dos solved:

The problem of getting colorized prompts and directory listings under 
4dos has been completely solved with nansi 4.0d.

Additionally, I now get black letters on a bright white background with 
nansi 4.0d using the patch below:

c:debug nansi.sys
  -e 6a2
  0...:06A2  7F.ff
  -w
  Writing 1345 bytes.
  -q

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Re: [Freedos-user] How to get colorized directory in a dosemu prompt?

2007-07-23 Thread Larry Alkoff
Larry Alkoff wrote:
Oops I forgot to list the patch.
Here is the whole message:

Problems with nansi and 4dos solved:

The problem of getting colorized prompts and directory listings under 
4dos has been completely solved with nansi 4.0d.

Additionally, I now get black letters on a bright white background with 
nansi 4.0d using the patch below:

c:debug nansi.sys
  -e 6a2
  0...:06A2  7F.ff
  -w
  Writing 1345 bytes.
  -q


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Re: [Freedos-user] Using nansi.sys vs ansi.sys under 4dos

2007-07-08 Thread Larry Alkoff
Hello Eric and thank you for your attention.
The debug patch below worked perfectly
and my dosemu has a nice white background all over the screen.

Goodbye ansi.

Gratefully,
Larry


Eric Auer wrote:
 Hi Larry,
 
 black on white is an interesting problem. You cannot get a bright
 background in normal hardware setting - you would get a blinking
 one instead. The ansi escape sequence selects reverse blinking
 or black on white blinking, because NORMAL background colors are
 not bright... The bold bit is bright foreground, and the blink
 bit can be either blinking foreground or bright background - this
 depends on your hardware setting, but most people use blinking.
 
 Looks like dosemu cannot do blinking foreground so it does bright?
 Anyway, when I do prompt $e[0;7;5m then I do indeed get black on
 white in dosemu, but only for text. It seems that our command.com
 does not set empty space on the screen to the selected colors...
 When you do cls and then do ver, you see that the rest of the
 screen is black. I think this is quite normal even with MS ANSI.
 
 Another interesting problem is that when the screen scrolls, the
 color which scrolls in from the bottom is black on grey instead
 of black on white. This is what creates the effect you describe.
 
 However what happens is that the c: has the correct bright white
 correct but the rest of the screen is a dirtyish grey.  When I type
 characters after c: all the chars on that line have a nice white
 background but the untyped part of every line is that dirty grey.
 
 Actually NANSI does this deliberately. I guess the author did not
 want the scrolling up fill the screen with blinking eventually:
 
 Function get_blank_attrib is described as:
 
 ; Determine new attribute and character for a new blank region.
 ; Use current attribute, just disallow blink and underline.
 ; (Pretty strange way to do it.  Might want to disallow rev vid, too.)
 
 It contains this line in the file nansi.asm:
 
 and ah, 7fh ; disallow blink
 
 It also limits the attribute to either 1 or 7 (underline or
 normal, all other values suppressed) if you are in monochrome.
 
 I suggest to comment out that line :-). What should we do about
 the monochrome case, by the way? Can that stay as it is now?
 
 Larry, could you comment out the abovementioned 7fh line and
 recompile your NANSI file? That will need ASM (ArrowASM, is
 part of our distro), exe2bin (also in our distro) and tlink
 (from Turbo C 2, freeware, maybe replaceable with VAL...). If
 this is too complex for you, let me know, then I can compile
 a fresh file for you here and send it to you.
 
 Eric
 
 
 PS: You can also easily patch / fix your binary file as follows:
 c:debug nansi.sys
 -e 6a2
 0...:06A2  7F.ff
 -w
 Writing 1345 bytes.
 -q
 

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Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: Nansi 4.0d with smaller memory footprint, please try

2007-05-26 Thread Larry Alkoff
Eric I just started using nansi40d.sys and its a great improvement over
40a.  Nansi40a did not give 4dos directory colors but 40d does.  Finally 
I can get rid of the proprietary ansi.sys.

Thanks for the updates.

Larry


Eric Auer wrote:
 Hi everybody, please try the updated NANSI from
 
 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/nansi40d.zip
 
 Change: When you use the /S (disable keyboard redefinitions)
 options, the memory usage of NANSI is now 0.5 kB less :-).
 
 Plus trying to use unsupported options now triggers the display
 of a help message which lists the supported options. Useful for
 tiny distros where only the binary but not the docs are around,
 and useful for people who just assume that Nansi would work like
 MS ANSI and who fail to read the docs ;-).
 
 
 
 I hope the change does not introduce instabilities. Both
 using and not using the /S (disable key redefinitions)
 mode should give you a working NANSI. The only difference
 should be that /S should not support redefining keys and
 non-/S should support redefining keys. Text display and
 keyboard handling should work in both cases.
 
 BUT: I need testers for that! Feedback please :-). It works
 for me, but it would be interesting to know if it works for
 all of you...
 
 Thanks for testing! Eric
 
 
 PPS: A planned future update is disable int2f screen geometry
 interface to save 200-300 bytes more RAM. Would it be okay if
 that only worked when /S is active at the same time? Which name
 should be used for such an option, maybe /G or something? I also
 suggest that /G would ENABLE the geometry interface and that the
 default would be that it is enabled. The interface is 4.0c+ only.
 
 
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Re: [Freedos-user] How to get colorized directory in a dosemu prompt?

2007-05-22 Thread Larry Alkoff
Damyan Ivanov wrote:
 -=| Larry Alkoff, Mon, 21 May 2007 21:30:47 -0500 |=-
 I use 4dos a free command.com emulator which has many more functions 
 than command.com.

 It has the ability to display a directory listing in color, similar
 to what happen with --color=auto in an xterm.

 Can anyone help me to get color in an xdosemu terminal?
 
 If I remember correctly, you need to load ansi.sys in config.sys so
 4dos is able to use colors. Sorry if you already tried that.
 


Damyan thank you very much.  Problem solved.

I had been loading nansi.sys which comes with freedos in config.sys.  It 
was obviously doing something but no color.

Your email prompted me to dig up an old copy of ansi.sys and _that_ 
worked right off the bat!

I'm so happy to finally have color.

Gratefully,
Larry

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[Freedos-user] How to get colorized directory in a dosemu prompt?

2007-05-21 Thread Larry Alkoff
I use 4dos a free command.com emulator which has many more functions 
than command.com.

It has the ability to display a directory listing in color, similar to 
what happen with --color=auto in an xterm.

Can anyone help me to get color in an xdosemu terminal?

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Re: [Freedos-user] Howto specify a dosemu font?

2007-05-20 Thread Larry Alkoff
David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
 Mike McCarty wrote:
 
 David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
 not dosemu, xdosemu. x, x, x!  I believe xdosemu is nothing but a
 The repetition like that was hardly necessary. I'm sure he would
 have gotten the point with just a statement
 
 Absolutely.  I was in a hurry and impatient to share my ignorance.
 
 Why can't Larry A. enlarge his xdosemu window by dragging?  Is he
 missing dosemu fonts or xfonts? 
 
 Yes, on my machine as well. But, as I commented, I find the
 display dim.
 
 That's true, but it's better than tiny.  daveA
 

I have learned how to drag and enlarge the xdosemu window but I don't 
like the look of the fonts.

When I use the default font in .dosemurc, both xterm and konsole (KDE) 
will re-size.

However, I prefer in .xdosrmurc to specify the
$_X_font = vga12x30
which is a large 11 wide x 8.5 high font.
The window apparently gets fixed by the size of the font.

My only remaining problem is that I cannot get colors in the directory 
listing - just had to throw that off thread statement in.

Larry

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Re: [Freedos-user] Howto specify a dosemu font?

2007-05-17 Thread Larry Alkoff
David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
 Larry Alkoff wrote:
 
 David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
 Larry Alkoff wrote:

 I am trying to specify a larger font for dosemu 1.2.2
 than the default font specified in ~/.dosemu of
 # $_X_font =  # default 8.5w x 4.25h
 It took me a very long time to find out that I could use xdosemu
 and drag the window to fill the screen and it would use a larger
 font automatically.  You knew that though, right?  daveA

 Hello David.  No, I did not know that.
 I just tried to adjust the Kterm with dosemu running and the window
 does not adjust at all.

 This might possibly be the font I'm running, which was selected
 because I wanted a bigger Kterm - the larger font seems to provide a
 larger Kterm window to accommodate it.

 My large font is
$_X_font = vga12x30   # The biggest 11 wide x 8.5high

 What is your font setting?  Maybe yours is adjustable and mine is not
 
 not dosemu, xdosemu. x, x, x!  I believe xdosemu is nothing but a
 wrapper which makes dosemu use the xfonts.  Typing xdosemu in
 an eterm opened another term, which I don't think was 'e', but I
 could be wrong.  IAC, it was adjustable.  daveA 
 


Sorry for the confusion David.  I always start dosemu in KDE with 
xdosemu either from the command line or icon.

Actually xdosemu is soft linked to dosemu but the script can tell which 
way it was called and act accordingly.

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Re: [Freedos-user] Howto specify a dosemu font?

2007-05-16 Thread Larry Alkoff
David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
 Larry Alkoff wrote:
 
 I am trying to specify a larger font for dosemu 1.2.2
 than the default font specified in ~/.dosemu of
 # $_X_font =  # default 8.5w x 4.25h
 
 It took me a very long time to find out that I could use xdosemu
 and drag the window to fill the screen and it would use a larger
 font automatically.  You knew that though, right?  daveA
 

Hello David.  No, I did not know that.
I just tried to adjust the Kterm with dosemu running and the window does 
not adjust at all.

This might possibly be the font I'm running, which was selected because 
I wanted a bigger Kterm - the larger font seems to provide a larger 
Kterm window to accommodate it.

My large font is
   $_X_font = vga12x30   # The biggest 11 wide x 8.5high

What is your font setting?  Maybe yours is adjustable and mine is not?

Larry


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[Freedos-user] Howto specify a dosemu font?

2007-05-15 Thread Larry Alkoff
I am trying to specify a larger font for dosemu 1.2.2
than the default font specified in ~/.dosemu of
# $_X_font =  # default 8.5w x 4.25h


My specified satisfactory font in ~/.dosemurc is:
$_X_font = vga12x30   # The biggest 11 wide x 8.5high

I'm using Kubuntu Feisty Fawn and invoke dosemu with /usr/bin/xdosemu.

My fonts for dosemu are in ~/.fonts.  They used to work in the previous 
Kubuntu version Dapper Dan.

In the ~/.fonts directory I have run mkfontdir to create a fonts.dir and 
fonts.alias.

I also ran fc-cache with the following results:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts
/home/lba/.fonts: caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
/home/lba/.fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded

My /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf is stock and all lines are commented out 
except for the single line of
$_hdimage = freedos:ro

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Re: [Freedos-user] Howto specify a dosemu font?

2007-05-15 Thread Larry Alkoff
Hello Jim and thanks for your reply.  I have been getting replies from
both the doesmu list and the freedos list - that's why I posted to both.

You have given me a new resource 'xlsfonts'
Running it gave me 6,293 lines of fonts, some of which are just 
different sizes.  But many more than I thought were in my Kubuntu.

I have fixed the problem of dosemu finding my selected font although I 
don't really know how I did it.

Some combination of:
mkfontdir - create an index of X font files in a directory
fc-cache -f -v
xset - set user preferences for X
   see xset fp rehash to reset the font paths to current value.

Somehow my dosemu with 12x30 easy to read font has re-appeared.

Larry


Jim Hall wrote:
 We're getting off-topic for the FreeDOS lists - you can probably get
 better help on the DOSEmu lists.
 
 However, DOSEmu will use an X font resource.  Use 'xlsfonts | less' to
 view what fonts are available to you.  I was able to edit my
 dosemu.conf to specify a different font (even one that didn't support
 the VGA extended characters - EDIT looks very weird that way.)  If you
 can see the font in 'xlsfonts' then you should be able to reference it
 just fine in your dosemu.conf file.
 
 -jh
 
 
 
 On 5/15/07, Larry Alkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am trying to specify a larger font for dosemu 1.2.2
 than the default font specified in ~/.dosemu of
 # $_X_font =  # default 8.5w x 4.25h


 My specified satisfactory font in ~/.dosemurc is:
 $_X_font = vga12x30   # The biggest 11 wide x 8.5high

 I'm using Kubuntu Feisty Fawn and invoke dosemu with /usr/bin/xdosemu.

 My fonts for dosemu are in ~/.fonts.  They used to work in the previous
 Kubuntu version Dapper Dan.

 In the ~/.fonts directory I have run mkfontdir to create a fonts.dir and
 fonts.alias.

 I also ran fc-cache with the following results:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts
 /home/lba/.fonts: caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
 /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
 /home/lba/.fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
 fc-cache: succeeded

 My /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf is stock and all lines are commented out
 except for the single line of
 $_hdimage = freedos:ro

 Have I missed a vital step?


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[Freedos-user] How to tell which dosemu version I have?

2007-05-14 Thread Larry Alkoff
How to tell which dosemu version I have?

I _believe_ my version used to be 1.3.3.

For my new install of Kubuntu Feisty first copied over the old ~/.dosemu 
and then used apt-get dosemu
to install it.

aptitude -vv show dosemu
reports version 1.2.2.8

Is there any way to interregate dosemu itself to get it's version number?

Thanks, Larry

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[Freedos-user] Dosemu under Freedos won't type certain uppercase letters

2006-03-27 Thread Larry Alkoff

Using dosemu version 1.2.2 and Freedos b9r5 under Slackware Linux 10.2.

When typing in dosemu the following letters won't print at all:
Uppercase A
Uppercase S
Shift 6 aka ^

Any idea why this is happening and how to fix?

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