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

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:45:06 +0000 (UTC)
> sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > > > Thanks.  First dosemu?  (No hurry on either).
> > >
> > > I forgot about dosemu. I will try to set up a uClibc environment
> > > (you wanted the latest development edition built statically with
> > > uClibc, right?) and see if it builds.
> >
> > version 1.32 has fixed the problem of missing characters.  Even a version
> > built dynamically for BL3 or BL2 would help.  I could not get it to
> > compile.
>
>   I, too, have problems with dosemu.  I can download the binaries, and 
> install it OK, I can just never get any DOS programs to run properly.
>
>   Must be that I am not setting it all up properly, but I am not familiar 
> with FreeDOS (that comes with it) and none of my favourite (and useful) DOS 
> applications will function at all.
>
> Regards,
>         Ron

We got WP working in graphical mode (in CLI mode you cannot use the 
function keys because it switches terminals instead), and a small DOS CAD 
program working properly in graphical mode (BL2 - the BL3-type version had 
a broken graphical mode) but comma and i were missing.  My partner's 
little text editor somewhat works.  Have you gotten AYTHING to work at 
all?   Maybe it is not installed right?  You need to copy over the DOS 
programs to C: or maybe D: after typing doseum or xdosemu (from X) and 
then run them from there.

CLI mode works in BL3, graphical (xdosemu) in BL2, using precompiled 
binaries.  CLI mode sort of works in Bl2 but is missing too many 
characters such as A and S.  They claim to have fixed all this.  Graphical 
mode would not work at all in BL3, some font problem.

I find it easier just to turn on two computers.

Sindi