Hi Pete,
I think that dosemu might solve my problem
and many thanks for the info.
cheers!
viswap
--- Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin: Viswanath P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> >
> > Hi Pete,
> >
> > I have a source to generate an interrupt (at
> > present testing it with function generator setting
> > up the level to TTL logic in parallel port). I am
> > just feeding this interrupt to the pin no. 10 (Int
> ACK)
> > of the parallel port and the other pin grounded.
> This
> > works even in the Windoze/DOS mode well. Parallel
> > port
> > uses IRQ 7.
>
> aha. ok, i understand.
>
> > Is DOS emu stable?
>
> i think it's more stable than wine. it's an older
> project and isn't as
> ambitious.
>
> > Can the serial port can be accessed.
>
> not sure. check out www.dosemu.org.
>
> > What is the recent stable version ?
>
> contrary to their website, the stable version is
> something like .99 and the
> developer's version went to 1.1.1. last i checked,
> the info on the website
> was a bit dated.
>
> i had alot of success with dosemu. like wine, you
> don't absolutely need MS
> DOS to run dosemu; it comes with an unencumbered dos
> called freedos.
>
> pete
>
> > --- Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > hi viswap,
> > >
> > > > Thanks for the info. I thought it will
> > > > brought up the shell prompt as it does in
> dosemu.
> > >
> > > nope. afaik, wine won't give you a shell. but
> if
> > > you think about it, why
> > > should it? MS windows doesn't give you a shell
> > > either. when it does, it
> > > gives you a dos shell. wine just emulates
> that!
> > >
> > > if you want a command line interface, dosemu is
> the
> > > way to go. i have more
> > > experience with dosemu; it works quite well.
> i've
> > > been able to get doom,
> > > eradicator and duke nukem 3d working with
> dosemu.
> > >
> > > > Actually I am accessing an hardware interrupt
> > > through
> > > > parallel port in window$. I would like to
> know
> > > > whether that executable file can be run under
> > > linux.
> > >
> > > i'm not sure what you mean here -- interrupts
> are
> > > generated by hardware and
> > > received by the processor. they aren't accessed
> by
> > > user space stuff. at
> > > least, as far as i know.
> > >
> > > if you explain a bit more, i may be able to
> help.
> > >
> > > btw, if there's not much win32 stuff going on, i
> > > think dosemu would be better
> > > for your situation.
> > >
> > > pete
> > >
> > >
> > > > If so, if the windows is in the same machine
> along
> > > > with linux will it check for port
> accessibility or
> > > > not.
> > > > I could not see any info on accessing hardware
> > > through
> > > > wine.
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > > Viswap
> > > > --- Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > begin: Viswanath P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have smbmount(Samba client) of my
> other
> > > > > window$
> > > > > > OS machine connected in network. After
> > > mounting
> > > > > it in
> > > > > > my other machine which runs only Linux can
> I
> > > use
> > > > > Wine
> > > > > > to run some of my windows appln.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is it possible to configure Wine to see
> the
> > > samba
> > > > > > mount which I had mounted Or does it need
> to
> > > be in
> > > > > the
> > > > > > native disk itself.
> > > > >
> > > > > what exactly do you want to do? wine isn't
> > > like
> > > > > dosemu -- you don't get a
> > > > > "shell". you simply run applications.
> > > > >
> > > > > $ cd /WindowsMount/Program\ Files/MyWin32App
> > > > > $ wine MyWin32App.exe
> > > > >
> > > > > is this what you're thinking of? wine
> would
> > > > > certainly see your samba mount.
> > > > >
> > > > > pete
> > >
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