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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:
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> On 26 Jun 03 at 12:38, jamtat AT mailsnare.net wrote:
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> >On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Day Brown wrote:
> >
> >Is it just sort of a toy, or can it really offer a DOS user
> >something useful and useable on a Linux system?
> 
> I am able to run ver. 1.02 under slackware 3.5 in Xwindow. Almost any
> DOS application works (except connection to internet, of course). On
> that machine I even have Czech keyboard within Linux, within
> Xwindows, within DOS and even within MS-Word vor DOS 6.0 together
> with many, many function keys working. DOS programs access files
> from the DOS partition and from the Linux partition. Although dosemu
> requires more cpu and mem recources, networking through the linux
> environment, multitasking, and integreating Linux internet
> applications with DOS software will certainly increase effectivity.
> What is most important: old DOS applications can survive in some kind
> of reservation while the main system shifts to Linux. So all text and
> data produced during the last 15 years will be always accessible.
> 
> Dosemu actually is not designed to run on an old PC that is too
> slow to run Linux. But if you are working with a Linux or start to do
> so, you will be able not only to keep your data from the DOS
> environment, but even the applications to read them.
> 
> Unfortunately the latest dosemu versions (1.1.3 and 1.1.4) which
> are told to offer further improvements are not provided as binaries.
> Under Slack 3.5, I was not able to compile them. And until now I have
> not been able to install anything newer than Slack 3.5... But
> dosemu development is obviously still continuing.
Kewl. Thanx.
Next question: my favorite text editor by far over WP or any other, is
DEXTER.EXE. It offers the 50 line screens. But in Linux, if you want the
50 lines, you havta be root. Does DOSEMU get around this Linux rule? or
do you havta run the DOSEMU prompt at 25 lines? What does MODE do?