Changes between 1.01 and 1.02

Changes between 1.01 and 1.02

[Marcus Roeckrath]

Hi,

until now I'm using SuSE 7.2 and dosemu 1.0.1 which was shipped with SuSE 
7.2. Now I examined the dosemu 1.0.3 shipped with SuSE 7.3 and found several 
differences between both packages.

A lot of file names have changed: f. e. dos to dosemu and so on.

The /etc/dosemu.users isn't there anymore.

I'm using symlinks c/d pointing to mounted real dos drives in /var/lib/dosemu 
in dosemu 1.0.1. Has this possibility gone in 1.0.2?

Can someone tell me if an update to 1.0.2 could solve the problems running 
dpmi software like dbase IV. Is there a significant better serial code which 
was not working as good as it is wished when running dos fido mailers.

-- 

Gruss Marcus

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Re: Changes between 1.01 and 1.02

[pesarif]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 03:18, Marcus Roeckrath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> until now I'm using SuSE 7.2 and dosemu 1.0.1 which was shipped with SuSE
> 7.2. Now I examined the dosemu 1.0.3 shipped with SuSE 7.3 and found
> several differences between both packages.
>
1.0.3?
You must have a very new version...

> A lot of file names have changed: f. e. dos to dosemu and so on.
>
> The /etc/dosemu.users isn't there anymore.
>
dosemu is now designed to be run for each individual user.

> I'm using symlinks c/d pointing to mounted real dos drives in
> /var/lib/dosemu in dosemu 1.0.1. Has this possibility gone in 1.0.2?
>
Officially /var/lib/dosemu has gone.
Try putting them in your home directory.
But if you copy dosemu.bin to /usr/bin/dos, you can just run dos and it will 
act like it use to with global paths.

> Can someone tell me if an update to 1.0.2 could solve the problems running
> dpmi software like dbase IV. Is there a significant better serial code
> which was not working as good as it is wished when running dos fido
> mailers.
http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/~stas is a good place to look.

Re: Changes between 1.01 and 1.02

[Felix Karpfen]

pesarif wrote:
> >
> Officially /var/lib/dosemu has gone.
> Try putting them in your home directory.
> But if you copy dosemu.bin to /usr/bin/dos, you can just run dos and it will 
> act like it use to with global paths.

For the benefit of new arrivals to dosemu with limited computing
<knowledge | skills>, is there anywhere that this advice is presented
less cryptically?

The advice has the appearance of being the answers that I was looking
for (DOS programs that cannot find the correct path for their
subroutines) - if I understood what it said.

Felix Karpfen
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Re: Changes between 1.01 and 1.02

[pesarif]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:57, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> pesarif wrote:
> > Officially /var/lib/dosemu has gone.
> > Try putting them in your home directory.
> > But if you copy dosemu.bin to /usr/bin/dos, you can just run dos and it
> > will act like it use to with global paths.
>
> For the benefit of new arrivals to dosemu with limited computing
> <knowledge | skills>, is there anywhere that this advice is presented
> less cryptically?
>
sorry

> The advice has the appearance of being the answers that I was looking
> for (DOS programs that cannot find the correct path for their
> subroutines) - if I understood what it said.
>

ok, the below:
> I'm using symlinks c/d pointing to mounted real dos drives in
> /var/lib/dosemu in dosemu 1.0.1. Has this possibility gone in 1.0.2?
works if you "cp dosemu.bin /usr/bin/dos" and run /usr/bin/dos.
running dosemu.bin directly like this means that the old /var/lib/dosemu is 
used.

if you don't want this hack and want to run dosemu the "1.0.2 way", just put 
symlinks in your home folder (to your drives) and run dosemu -home, I think.

alternatively to all of these ways of accessing your drives, use lredir <drive 
name:> <linux mount point>. this is the best way of doing imo.

Re: Changes between 1.01 and 1.02

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

> Now I examined the dosemu 1.0.3
1.0.3 is a non-existant version.
Do you mean 1.0.2, or 1.1.3, or is
it something SuSE-specific?

> I'm using symlinks c/d pointing to mounted real dos drives in 
> /var/lib/dosemu 
> in dosemu 1.0.1. Has this possibility gone in 1.0.2?
It is still there.

> Can someone tell me if an update to 1.0.2 could solve the problems 
Upgrade to 1.0.2 is not recommended.
If you want 1.0 branch, use 1.0.2.1.

> running 
> dpmi software like dbase IV.
dosemu-1.1.3.1 with patches from
dosemu.sourceforge.net/stas
have more chances to solve your DPMI
problems, but it depends on what the
problems are exactly.

> Is there a significant better serial code 
> which 
> was not working as good as it is wished when running dos fido mailers.
Yes, atleast TMail was not working very
well on some systems until dosemu-1.1.3.
In general all progs that uses a FIFO mode
and does early EOI, might hopefully feel
better now and there was also a fix that
prevents loseing the data in non-fifo mode.

Re: Changes between 1.01 and 1.02

[Marcus Roeckrath]

Hello Stas,

Stas Sergeev wrote on Dienstag, 11. Juni 2002 01:03 about Re: Changes between 
1.01 and 1.02:

> > Now I examined the dosemu 1.0.3
>
> 1.0.3 is a non-existant version.
> Do you mean 1.0.2, or 1.1.3, or is
> it something SuSE-specific?

A typo should be 1.0.2.

> > dpmi software like dbase IV.
>
> dosemu-1.1.3.1 with patches from  dosemu.sourceforge.net/stas
> have more chances to solve your DPMI problems

I should give the developers branch and your patches a try.

-- 

Gruss Marcus

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