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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> I could not see the numbers that I typed

Sounds like a bug.  It would be useful if you could track
down the cause.  Nothing like that has ever happen on the
two computers I use for testing.

> > Are you booting from bare DOS?
> 
> No, we have himem.sys and emm386.exe in config.sys, 

Then that could be the cause of your problem.  Both of
those crash Xvesa for me.

> because this is a DOS computer used for DOS as well as BL3.  
> I thought the whole point of BL was for use on a DOS computer, 
> not on its own computer, 

Not necessarily.  It boots from DOS because unzip-and-boot is
simple and doesn't require partitioning.  As for BL3, I'm
hoping that some dusty computers (currently used for nothing) 
might get a new life as Xterminals.

> and I can't use DOS very well without autoexec.bat and config.sys.

I'm sure somebody as experienced as you knows how to do a
config.sys menu.  Or simply press SHIFT when DOS boots to 
bypass config.sys and autoexec.bat.

> I will see if booting from a bare DOS on floppy disk fixes 
> the lack of a cursor in rxvt.  

Your rxvt never has a cursor???  Even when running solo?
Something is weird there.  Could be a milder form of the
Xvesa clash.  
 
Cheers,
Steven


P.S. Do you know what partition your DrDOS systems use for C:?  
     I'd like to add that option to the BL3 boot routine.