----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Reardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:08 PM Subject: Re: dosemu
> 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? http://bugs.debian.org/dosemu shows Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as the maintainer of this package. Havent looked at it in depth but it seems that it strongly prefers X and at least in some cases seems like it just wont work in console mode. Kind Regards, Shri ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant 23 McDonald Road Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com > 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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
