I installed dosemu on my potato box to try to help Cheryl, but it did not give me any man or info pages. Who maintains dosemu, anyway?
Phil Reardon > I've tried doing this several ways; my most recent, which I realize isn't > totally accurate, was to put '/dev/hda2" under the hdimage entry in the > dosemu.conf. This actually did get me some results as I was able to run > wp5.1 with this setup, but it had other problems. For one thing, this > apparently bypassed the commands in /usr/lib/dosemu so I couldn't exit not > having access to the exitemu command. Of course, once could copy those > commands to /dev/hda1 (/dos when mounted) but that made me wonder if I was > also bypassing other important things by this setup. I'm also confused by > the link to > /var/lib/dosemu whic contains freedos. Do I still want this stuff in > /var/lib/dosemu to be there since i'm not using freedos. Also there's an > autoexec.bat in the /var/lib/dosemu/freedos directory, but most of the > commands there seem to relate to freedos. Are there any commands from that > autoexec.bat that I need or extra ones that i need to put into my > autoexec.bat in /dev/had2 to have this run correctly? > My second problem, which may or may not be caused simply by the fact that I > don't have this set up correctly, is that I can't get my com ports to work. > I do have the appropriate /dev indications in my /etc/dosemu.conf in the > com lines, and if i try to copy something to a braille storage device I > have on com2, I'm told the file was copied but com2, with my storage > device, is never actually being accessed. > I really do usually try to figure out thing on my own with linux before > running to a list, but this is getting me totally frustrated and obviously > just reading the docs again isn't going to help me if I'm not understanding > some key points. Help would be appreciated. > TIA.
