Heimo Claasen wrote: > Bob - that's a great idea ! And what's even better is that you _do_ > what I was pondering about <bg>. (I had picked up a Mandrake 9.2 set > a goog month agogo but not yet played with it, wanted to update/improve > an earlier Mdk-install on a laptop where it has to coexist with Win98 > and a real DOS.)
Heimo, I did get a copy of your post. I'd hoped to have some positive news at this point, but wound up fighting a driver issue with Windows for far longer than I wanted to. Had kids waiting to play new games, so that was priority. :) I did manage to get a "smaller" MDK9.2 loaded, but it was still 315MB. I'm looking for the details for a ~100MB install that MDK is supposed to support now. If MDK doesn't pan out, I'll try it with Debian since I *know* everything I need is there. > The first time I tried DOSemu - about two years ago - was the last > time and I didn't get far with it; the sore points were that it didn't > allow precisely thoses hardware-near things which are best done in > DOS, like direct port addressing (especially printer), other input/output > doings. I was able to get it talking to com ports, but that's about it. Didn't try any printing or such, nor will I have such means. > Maybe DOSemu has developed since; at the time it must have been some > 0.6-or-so version. (I never tries seriously again, use DOS straight away instead.) It sounds like they're still actively tweaking it. I'm curious to try it again myself. > I'll bundle a package of the DOS-suite I use permanetly (dialler, > packet driver are so-to-say standard; send-mail, fetch-meil are WATTCP > based combines, the mail/file reader/manager is my own brew and the > most critical in that respect as it uses DOS functions heavily) and > send you the URL to download. Assuming it's more comfortable this way than > a huge email. Yes, a URL will be fine! Thanks! - 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
