Re: using Turkish in dosemu

[Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@gantek.com>]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:26:23AM +0400, Sergey Suleymanov wrote:
>         Silly question - do you use dosemu version 1.1.3.2 ?

Aaaahhh!!! I've forgotten to replace global.conf and dosemu.conf.
Everything works now. Thank you very much, Sergey!

When can I expect the changes being integrated into the source? I
couldn't find the link to cvs tree on the sourceforge project page; is
dosemu distributed via tarballs/patches only?

BTW, this problem wouldn't have happened if Makefile provided proper
sitewide installation under a certain prefix. Why did The Team decide to
remove it?


Now, I want to run a DOS application on linux server, telnetting from
win98 and win2000. To achieve real DOS look and feel, there are two
issues remaining.

1. How can I make escape key work the same way as in DOS (acting after a
   single stroke)?

   As far as I could understand, in that case dosemu would rely on a
   certain timeout to distinguish between the escape key and other keys
   generating \033 as the first character of the sequence. Would this
   method cause problems with typeahead over network connections? Is
   there any workaround (besides redefining cygwin key strings -- I'm
   afraid this would require recompiling)?


2. Ideally, I want to be able to use as much 857 characters as possible
   (linedrawing, filled boxes, etc.).

   I'm going to use telnet from cygwin, which is win32 console
   application. It would use 1254 font while in full-screen mode. Adding
   1254 support to dosemu wouldn't solve my problem, since 1254 doesn't
   provide linedrawing characters at all. So, I'm thinking about
   converting 857 font to use in the full-screen DOS box.

   a) Which file provides these fonts? I.e., is it in, say,
      vgaf1254.fon, or ega2.cpi?

   b) Does anyone know a tool to convert fonts to that format?


Thanks in advance,
Baurjan.