Hello,
A friend of mine was able to run the dictionary program in dosbox.
This does not help me immediately, because at the moment dosbox has no
text interface and is thus not accessible to me (I'm blind).
However, since it works in dosbox it proves that it is possible to make
it work somehow, so
Hi,
Rugxulo (2011/12/27 17:00 -0600):
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Sébastien Hinderer
sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org wrote:
I've actually seen a report of this dictionnary not working, but I
don't think any serious attempt to understand and perhaps fix the
problem had been
Hi again:
So I just used XRAY to examine the program.
Interestingly enough, this shows amessage on the screen that did not
show up when not using XRAY.
The message is in french and says:
Loading...
Fatal error:
Incorrect or broken disc
I hope this is not due to the use of XRAY.
The dictionnary
Hello Eric,
Many thanks for participating to this thread!
Copy protection? Needs original CD?
It _is_ the original CD. And I don't think it's a matter of copy
protection because I believed I already burned copies of this CD for
others and I think it worked.
Interesting that this continues a
Hi,
A quick check seems to indicate it's kinda old docs, but maybe it's
better than nothing.
For sure.
No idea, but presumably empty like all other (good) IRC channels.
:-/
:-)
But here's two horribly wimpy suggestions to isolate the problem.
1). Download File 5.09:
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer
sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org wrote:
menu.exe: MS-DOS executable, MZ for MS-DOS
robert.exe: MS-DOS executable, MZ for MS-DOS
Okay, nothing fancy there.
(shrug) Dunno, maybe your installation is incomplete??
Hmm I don't know what
Hello,
thanks so much for having taken the time to respond with several tracks
to explore !
It will be hard to fix when the software isn't freely available. Most
of us aren't willing to download random (still copyrighted)
abandonware.:-/
Understood.
I was wondering whether dosemu
Once I saw firmware in the output, I start to wonder if this program requires
a dongle to operate. That was not uncommon for dictionary programs at the time,
and is still seen today with USB dongles. Did you run this software on MSDOS
previously, and did it require a hardware device?
jh
On
jhall (2011/12/28 08:34 -0600):
Once I saw firmware in the output, I start to wonder if this program
requires a dongle to operate. That was not uncommon for dictionary
programs at the time, and is still seen today with USB dongles. Did
you run this software on MSDOS previously,
Yes.
and did
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Shérab sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org wrote:
http://www.dosemu.org/docs/
Will give the manuals a try, thanks.
A quick check seems to indicate it's kinda old docs, but maybe it's
better than nothing.
Incidentally: does dosemu have an (active) IRC
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Shérab
sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org wrote:
Dear all,
I'm trying to use with Linux + dosemu + freedos a french dictionnary
which was published about 20 years ago with a search program running
under MS DOS.
For the moment, I'm not able to make this program
Dear James,
thank you so much for having taken the time to respond to my e-mail.
Hi. I've never used a dictionary program on DOS before, so I can't
offer any particular help on this problem.
I've actually seen a report of this dictionnary not working, but I
don't think any serious attempt to
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Sébastien Hinderer
sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org wrote:
I've actually seen a report of this dictionnary not working, but I
don't think any serious attempt to understand and perhaps fix the
problem had been undertaken so far.
It will be hard to fix when
Dear all,
I'm trying to use with Linux + dosemu + freedos a french dictionnary
which was published about 20 years ago with a search program running
under MS DOS.
For the moment, I'm not able to make this program work.
No matter how I try torn it, nothing happens till I press Enter, which
brings
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