RE: Three major questions.

["administrator" <administrator@mail.hq42.net>]

>I am running dosemu 1.1.5.6 and would like to see if it is possible.

>1) To get rid splash screen "Now type ENTER to start DOSEMU" and
>automatically start dosemu without hitting a key.

I will second this request.....
  -quiet   should take you straight to the prompt

>2) Running a dos program directly from the linux prompt and exiting back
>into linux after it is done.

You can do this with a simple bash script if we can take care of
problem number 1 above and 4 below.

>3) To be able to turn a comport into a telnet port. This would be perfect
>for BBS software if I could turn the com ports into telnet ports. For
>example. If I connect to my box on port (for example) 5000, Dosemu would
>redirect that as com1, port 5001 would be com2, etc. Any chance of this?

This would be more useful if the virtual com ports could have
a switch to turn on the virtual fossil driver/interface as well.

There are ways around this though....
I have a telnetable PCBoard running fine under 1.1.5.6
but it took a lot of " work around ".

4)
Which brings me to my own issue with dosemu the -U switch
dosemu -U pipein:pipeout    does not work.
Dosemu will take "whatever" command you send to pipein and
pushes   'Command "whatever" not found'  out  pipeout.

If anyone has ever gotten pipein to work correctly, please provide the
version number of the functional dosemu and any undocumented
steps required to make it work.