Re: Dosemu

[Ken Heard <ken@heard.name>]

Hugh Lawson wrote:
> On 2007-02-19, Ken Heard <ken@heard.name> wrote:
>
> > 	My original question was to find out whether there is anybody on the 
> > list who still uses dosemu. 
>
> Hello Ken,
>
> I don't use dosemu very much, but I have played with it, to the extent 
> of getting WordPerfect 5.1, running under dosemu, to print a one-line  
> file.  I've played with both the debian package and a binary package 
> which is the one I have now.  I've never tried any games. 

	It is precisely because I want to continue using WordPerfect 5.1 and 
three other DOS based applications that I want to get either Dosemu or 
Dosbox functional the two computers -- soon to be three -- where in the 
last month I have installed Etch.  I am not interested in games.

	I have already mentioned that I was unable to get Dosemu working in one 
box, actually my laptop.  I was using version dosemu-1.3.3.tgz.  After 
configuration I ran it, first as my user.  The following was returned:

  "You do not have the DOSEMU vga font installed and are running
   remote X. You need to install the vga font on your _local_ Xserver.
   Look at the readme for details. For now we start with an fixed font,
   which does not display all national characters correctly.
   ... be warned

ERROR: X support not compiled in or not found:
ERROR: /usr/local/lib/dosemu/libplugin_X.so: cannot open shared object 
file: No such file or directory
ERROR: term support not compiled in or not found:
ERROR: /usr/local/lib/dosemu/libplugin_term.so: cannot open shared 
object file: No such file or directory
ERROR: Terminal (S-Lang library) support not compiled in.
Install slang-devel and recompile, use xdosemu or console dosemu (needs 
root) instead."

	Earlier I had copied libplugin_X.so from my Sarge box (it was not 
included in dosemu-1.3.3.tgz) and put it in the following location, 
which is not where dosemu seemed to have looked for it:

/home/ken/dosemu-1.3.3/1.3.3.0/bin/libplugin_X.so

libplugin_term.so I do not have anywhere.

	I then ran dosemu as root, the following was returned:

 "There is something wrong with your systemwide DOSEMU installation:
  /usr/local/share/dosemu is not existing, but was configured to contain
  the DOSEMU distribution templates."

	If Dosbox serves my purpose I will stop trying to get dosemu working. 
Of course, if I find that Dosbox does not serve my purpose I will work 
on Dosemu and report back in the next one-two weeks, when I have the time.

			Regards,

			Ken Heard