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 m
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 dosem
gt; edit c:\history.dat (see what files it tried to open)
Well it seems not much happened, here is the content of history.dat:
OpenFile-R : robert
OpenFile-R : robert.exe
OpenFile-R : robert.exe
Exec: E:\ROBERT\ROBERT.EXE
OpenFile-R : \
OpenFile-R : kgb\kgb.exe
OpenFile-R : kgb\kg
is ran from a CD-ROM.
I tried to make a dd and the CD seems perfectly readable.
Any suggestion warmly appreciated.
Thanks,
Shérab.
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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
w, so I thought I could report it here nd perhaps we could
see why it does not work under dosemu...?
Cheers,
Shérab.
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Is there a way to access the .iso file from within dosemu / freedos
through something that would emulate a CD-ROM driver better ?
Thanks,
Shérab.
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Hi again,
Shérab (2013/12/28 16:36 +0100):
> So far I mounted the .ISO file on, say, /cdrom/ and then created a
> symbolic link called e under ~/.dosemu/drives pointing to /cdrom.
Not completely true. What I'm actually oing is that I have copied all
the files in the .isofile to,say,
