From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Underwood Subject: Re: [RFC] dosemu config generator Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:54:59 -0500 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030712215459.GI1031@dbz.icequake.net> References: <20030712084526.GY1031@dbz.icequake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hi Bart, On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 08:44:07PM +0100, Bart Oldeman wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Ryan Underwood wrote: > > > Here is my script to generate a dosemu config. > > > > Obviously it needs a lot of work to be really flexible and useful (I > > would like to tie it in with the app database) but I just wanted > > opinions on it. :) > > > > http://www.icequake.net/cgi2/dosemuconf.pl > > Looks nice! Just a few comments -- it may be better to look > forwards towards 1.2.0 rather than back to 1.0.2. Yeah, I designed it so that configs for different versions can be easily generated. But, that functionality isn't implemented quite yet :) > emubat is no longer there. It was never really reliable and there are > other methods to use an alternative to autoexec.bat. > > hogthreshold -- yes I know it's a little confusing but "0" means "full > tilt", 1 is "be nice" and higher then means "less nice". Think of "0" as > "infinity" here. Also the values can be higher than 15. > > There are a few settings that don't apply to xdosemu (such as rawkeyboard, > mouse settings, native speaker). > > keybint is obsolete, gone, just like "videoportaccess" (graphics does > that). > > SECURITY: all this stuff is obsolete too. Use sudo. > > Sound: we have sb16 support now (in 1.1.5.2). > > rdtsc may be overridden by .dosemurc. > > If you want to specify different hdimages to be used for restricted > access, do that here. If this is empty, the hdimages from > "hdimage" will be used for all users. (FIXME is that right?) > -- also gone. the idea was that a long time ago DOSEMU could only run > suid-root, so you could have a class of restricted users in dosemu.users > that were only allowed to execute certain DOS programs. Right now the > non-suid-root DOSEMU is a lot more powerful so this option has become > pointless. Ok, thanks for all the fixed comments. > One thing that would be good is to merge this with the tcl/tk > configuration utilities in the setup directory (run ./setup.tk etc > there). The problem is that these tools suffer from severe bitrot now > so any help would be very welcome to get these up and going again. I should be able to take my same base script and make a perl/gtk script from it. I don't know any TCL so that would be a little bit of a barrier potentially ;) .dosemu/.dosemurc is the same format as /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf correct? -- Ryan Underwood, , icq=10317253