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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> We had a serious problem with dosemu in CLI - at the prompt or in a program 
> if you type A or S they do not appear on the screen.  Lowercase a and s are 
> okay.  We will try it on different hardware next.
>
> If I get WP51 working I will report how.  I don't use the graphical parts of 
> it but could try to make those work too, however I think they need regular X, 
> and I have BL2 set up with Xvesa, so it would need to be BL1 (with libc6 
> added for dosemu).

I have been unable to get dosemu installed as 'user', only as 'root'.  I 
get pages of error messages unless I am root. The instructions say 
specifically to install as a user in the user's home directory in some 
subdirectory such as mydos.  I tried that exactly, no luck.

When I install it in /root as root it makes a /dosemu directory and things 
mostly work except A and S will not appear on screen (lower case works and 
other letters work). Tried three keyboards on the first machine and one on 
the second.  Pentium II and Pentium I machines with AMD or Intel cpus.
BL2 with upgraded glibc2 from SW81.

My partner's text editor works apart from missing letters.  It uses 
Function but not Alt keys.

I made a subdirectory /wp in /root/dosemu and copied to it all the 
files in my DOS /wp51 directory using linux, then loaded dosemu and went 
into the /wp directory and typed wp.  It loaded wp.

I normally use DOS and linux on my TTL monitor.  Under dosemu, wp 51 
underlines do not show up, so I switched to VGA.  The bold and centering 
did work.

In VGA underlines show up as reverse.  There are ways (in plain DOS) to 
set them to show up as underlines instead, with white text on black.  I 
think I have my DOS version set that way but the dosemu one did not use 
those settings.

I tried to reveal codes and ended up in VT 3 because reveal codes is Alt 
F3.  Block is Alt F4.  So I would say WP51 is not very useful under dosemu 
unless you use it without Alt keys.  Alt-F1 is thesaurus and Alt-F2 
is replace (as in search and replace).

Is there a simple way to change linux temporarily so Alt-F3 does not 
change terminals? chvt 3 gets you VT3 in BL2 (but not in BL3).


I am happy with loadlin and using DOS programs in DOS.  Good luck to the 
people searching for a mono or 4-bit color X wordprocessor.

I looked at RTF::Writer and it is written in perl therefore does not need 
compiling.  It might work as a small wordprocessor that could export text 
to MS WORD and other programs, but would hardly be 'familiar'.