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?
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.
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