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["Sindi Keesan" <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, sindi keesan wrote:
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>> translate from what I see on the TTL monitor using dosemu and wp51/DOS.
>>
> zgv actually works from the console with svgalib installed and the proper
> conf file.  Very helpful info on using dosemu - please keep us posted.
> I'm not sure what "translate . . . using . . . wp51" means, though.
I can view, using zgv, a page which a translation agency scanned and
emailed me as a gif file, on the vga monitor, and then use WP51/DOS under
dosemu to translate it to English on the TTL monitor.










>>
>> Is there some way to access files in the regular DOS partitions while
>> using dosemu?  I have saved hundreds of old translations that I modify
>> to
>> make new ones, but could copy them to the /home/user/ directory in linux
>> if necessary.
>>



>>
> Great info.  Thanks for relaying it.  I would think that, given the logic
> of how dosemu works plus my knowledge of Linux/DOS and IDE hardware, that
> mounting your DOS drive partition under your /home/user dir would be the
> way to go.  E.g.,
> ---------------------------------------------
> mkdir /home/user/DOS
> mount /dev/hdXX /home/user/DOS
 This ought to work, thanks.---------------------------------------------
> Make a proper /home/user/DOS entry in your /etc/fstab and it gets
> automounted every time you boot the computer, so that the DOS
> drive/partition is always accessible to dosemu.

I have discovered that this is not a good idea if I am trying to search
for files in the linux directories - it takes much longer because all the
dos files are also searched.  On the rare occasions when I use dosemu I
can remember to mount the Dos partition.
>
> James




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