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Hi Sindi

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

When I saw dosemu first in non-graphical mode I was quite disappointed
because the semigraphical characters did not display properly. For
some applications (I try to run MS-Word) this is a problem. So I did
not waste my time and tried dosemu in an Xwindow and got a screen
identical to that in DOS.

Xvesa is beyond me. I have X configured for S3 card, but have not
yet made any efforts for a most sophisticated display. On the other
machine I ran the old Xserver under the old Slackware (3.5)
with the old dosemu, and the dosemu Windo seemed to be restricted
to 16 colours. But I did not follow this.

>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).

This is probably ver. 1.0.2. It convinced me that dosemu makes sense
at all. There were many things missing then, eg. sound, networking.
Unfortunately I was able to compile the development versions 1.1.x.
Now I have Slackware 7.1 with better compiler and higher X and
succeeded in compiling 1.1.99. I am not sure whether they will put
a new binary into their archives soon.

Christof


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