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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:

> Hi Ron,
> 
> -12 degrees in Prague this morning.

That translates to about 10 degrees Fahrenheit.  It was about that here 
too, if not colder, but we are more prepared for it than Prague, I think.

> 
> On 21 Jan 04 at 12:09, baslinux-request AT lists.ibibl wrote:
>

I tried dosemu without any X.  Will graphical DOS programs run under X?  
If so, how?  Would Xvesa cooperate with dosemu?

> 
> In order to get prepared for dosemu you should install the
> tgz packets necessary for X window GUI and for the c compiler.
> There are precise instructions on the BL site.

We installed a precompiled version of dosemu that required downloading two 
binary files.  I don't recall if it was an older version but it appears to 
work (in console mode, anyway).  


> Then go to dosemu site (through Google - I do not have the URL here)
> and download the source code for dosemu 1.1.99 (which is meant as
> dosemu "almost 1.2"). Unzip this to you /tmp directory.
> 
> Then get the packages indicated in the dosemu readme and d1/perl.tgz,
> install them, go back to /tmp and try to compile.
> 
> Hopefully the error messages give you an idea of what is still
> missing (most probably some commands included in busybox, eg. find).
> It is quite practical to run the make command this way:
> 
>         make 2>error 1>messages
> 
> So you can re-read all the output afterwards when your compile session
> fails.
> 
> Regards
> Christof
> 
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