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On  7 Dec 03 at 6:13, baslinux-request AT lists.ibibl wrote:

>Jim was hoping to be able to use a DOS text editor that he wrote while
>also accessing files in the linux partition.  He discovered (after
>downloading dosemu and the associated freedos binary, and installing
>shadow.tgz so that he could add himself as a user because dosemu cannot be
>run as root) that dosemu only lets you see files in the freedos directory
>that you create for use with dosemu.  So you need to copy over whatever file
>you want to work on, go into dosemu, then back to linux.  This saves a
>couple of minutes rebooting but otherwise is not helpful.  Also he could not
>get it to save files and it told him that his terminal was not acceptible
>(but seemed to run anyway).

There is a utility you start from autoexec.bat under dosemu/freedos
that is able to map *any* directory of the file system into a dos
drive. No need to copy files. Works for me under bl1 and dosemu
1.1.0.2.

Christof

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