Day Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I'm kinda conjuring up this mutant system, with a smaller dos drive, > and a larger ext2. The ext2 goes online, acts like a firewall for the dos > drive. And kinda wondering about a file management tool that would > look the same, and act the same, from either os.
Day, it sounds like you want both OS "active" at the same time, or? What sort of hardware are you running on? I recall from way-back-when that you'd tried DOSemu but didn't like it? It might be worth another shot, because you could certainly have a very basic Linux system running in the back to get you online, then "connect" to it from DOS using DOSemu. I've done this to run some venerable old wardialing DOS software. > [...] But is there a text mode file manager of either dos or linux, that > can make good use of 100, 120, or 160 character lines? Monitors > are a lot bigger and sharper than when they came out with the > default linux/dos 25x80 text mode screen. You probably want a Linux system configured with a "framebuffer" enabled display. These will run fine even on basic VESA-compatible video cards. Depending on what distribution you're using, the kernel may already be configured this way. If you put "vga=ask" in lilo.conf (assuming you're using lilo as your boot manager), the system will stop and ask you which display mode to use. With a bit of poking, you may well find one that fits your needs, in which case Linux will simply run in that mode. There are tools to conver on-the-fly, but I've not tried them, so can't offer any meaningful advice. Now, I don't know that this will necessarily do anything for DOS sessions running under DOSemu. Here's a snippet from the Debian description of the latest package: --- cut here --- cut here --- Description: The Linux DOS Emulator DOSEMU is a PC Emulator application that allows Linux to run a DOS operating system in a virtual x86 machine. This allows you to run many DOS applications. - Color text and full keyboard emulation (via hotkeys) via terminal. - Built-in X support, includes IBM character set font. - Graphics capability at the console with most compatible video cards. - DPMI support so you can run DOOM. - CDROM support. - Builtin IPX and pktdrvr support. --- cut here --- cut here --- > I kinda wonder about the fonts too. They were all designed for use on > paper, but the screen is an emitter of light. The letters use hollow > shapes like "abdegopq", which if filled in, might be much more > obviously not the open shapes like "cfhkmnsuvwxyz". It's a big deal with > printing, > when the dark uses ink. But we dont have that problem. The framebuffer solutions will let you use alternate fonts, but again, I've not done it, nor is it particularly straightforward. > And, if we had maximally readable fonts in the maximum size (cause in > text mode it's got 100% of the screen) then we could spend more time > leaned back, rather than hunched over squinting at the screen. If- > what you are trying to read, why wouldnt you want as much of the text, the > whole text, and nothing but the text- on the screen without having to > find the scroll bar. I find the same when reviewing bootup screens for errors, reviewing logs etc. A minimal GUI with a resizable xterm should let you resize your display on the fly. Even at 800x600 resolution (not a particularly hard target to reach), I can resize using 10pt. courier font to get 95x35 resolution.At 1280x1024, I can get 155x66 and still have very readable text (depending on how tired I am). A lightweight GUI (i.e. icewm, fvwm) should come up quickly. You could have it configured to do nothing BUT launch an xterm window, then from there launch DOSemu. Just some thoughts. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
