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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> Why do you need graphics for display of a nongraphical wordprocessor such
> as WP 5.1, which I use on a TTL monitor in DOS?  (It also works in VGA but
> displays red instead of underline, etc., which I hate.  You have to choose
> between underline or bold, can't do both).  It displays in plain dosemu
> but works terribly, partly because of alt-F1 etc. working in linux, not
> DOS.  How would qemu handle Alt-F1?
>
> My partner wants to use his text editor in qemu.  It works in dosemu.

Something from the qemu manpage that may be relevant:
-nographic
  Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this
  option, you can totally disable graphical output so that QEMU is
  a simple command line application. The emulated serial port is
  redirected on the console.  Therefore, you can still use QEMU to
  debug a Linux kernel with a serial console.

James