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From: Claudia Neumann <dr.claudia.neumann@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Why can't su root ./dosemu ?
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:29:57 +0100
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Am Samstag, 10. Januar 2004 21:32 schrieb easlab@absamail.co.za:
> For the sole purpose of being able to use a DOS application which
> drives my par-port from linux, I installed
> dosemu-1.0.2-bin.tgz   and    dosemu-freedos.bin.tgz
> to my red-hat6.2 to dir:
> /home/crg/DOSEMU/dosemu
>   which gave me 4 sub-dirs: conf, freedos, bin, Xfonts.

Try newest version dosemu-1.1.99.1, where you don't have to run dosemu as root 
for parport usage. Runing programs as root is always a bad advice.

cu

Claudia