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

I downloaded a slightly older binary of DOSemu (1.99.1.2) and it does NOT 
run on BL3.  The current binary needs the SW81 glibc.  I may try that 
eventually with it. The current binary on BL2 won't display A S or ^ in 
CLI.  The patch involves changing dosemu.conf but I could not get it to 
work. I installed under /root so tried remarking out some lines in the 
dosemu script that pertain to non-system-wide installation, with no 
improvement.

I have BL2 set up with XVESA.
XVESA -screen 640x480x16 &rxvt (no wm)
cd /root/dosemu
xdosemu
(cannot be plain 'dosemu' or you get an error message later about SHARE 
while trying to run a DOS program)

First copy over any DOS programs to somewhere in /root/dosemu (D:).  I 
have not yet fiddled with autoexec.bat to put other directories on the 
path so cd to the directory where the programs are.

This gives me a full-screen DOS window from which I could run, complete 
with A and S (but not ^ if I recall right):
a small text editor
4dos
a small CAD program (it displays very slowly) with a PS/2 mouse

I will try WP51 on another computer under Xvesa since I already set it up 
there to try in CLI mode.  There is still the problem of Alt-F4 being not 
block but chvt 4.

Therefore Xvesa does not appear to be a problem for WP51, but the Alt-Fn 
combinations do.  BL3 probably will need libc upgraded to run the 
precompiled binary dosemu.  The later library will also let you run xpdf 
(previous versions don't work with the newest pdf format) in precompiled 
binary, and Opera 7.23.  Maybe someone wants to compile dosemu (the latest 
version with the AS bug fixed) for libc5?

ldd: All the files I look at are not a.out or ELF - freeedos or dosemu.


Mode mono does not appear to do anything.  Dazzle acts strangely under it 
but continues in color.  In mode co80 dazzle runs really slowly.
The FreeDOS edit program remains blue.  So there appears to be no Hercules 
emulation in dosemu.  On a TTL monitor it would not display underlines.



I personally don't want to use WP51 under dosemu because I run it in mono 
mode so as to see underlines rather than colors, but I willcheck out if 
you can remap vc 1 to 11, etc.

 On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sean Parker wrote:
> > Has anyone tried to get dosemu running on bl3?
>
> It should be possible.  DOSemu runs on BL1
> (instructions are in the BL1 FAQ) and most
> things that work on BL1 also work on BL3.
>
> > I'm thinking of trying to get WordPerfect5.1
> > running through dosemu on my BL3 laptop
>
> Could be interesting, but you will probably find
> that running wp51 under DOSemu will be quite a
> bit slower than running it directly from DOS.
>
> Let us know how it goes.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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