Re: DOSEmu and LTSP

[Yassen Damyanov <yd@troyer.co.at>]

On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:22, William Mitchell Jr wrote:

> Yassen Damyanov wrote:
> > The only problem was (and still is) that my clipper
> > accounting application has file/record locking problems within
> > DOSEMU/FreeDOS.
>
> Sorry for off topic question, but---
> what clipper accounting application?
>
>
> Bill

Hi, Bill, Daniel and all,

The project was held a couple of months ago, intended to replace some 12-15 
windows 9x boxes running only clipper accounting applicaiton within their MS 
DOS 7.x. They all should have become X terminals to a linux box running LTSP 
(here is where Daniel should get hope: except locking it all run easily and 
smoothly).

Thanks to John Charlton, Peter Tuharsky and Mikhail Ramendik who wrote with 
nice suggestions at that time (I could not answer due to a sudden surgery 
that put me out in a hospital for weeks) -- unfortunately, nothing helped.

The application is written in clipper 5.3b and uses standard clipper locking 
functions (flock, rlock) for accessing common data files. It cannot be 
debugged by DOSEMU developers because it is Bulgarian and even if I describe 
tets cases, noone will be able to reproduce them.

One more fact here: For the sake of finding the problem source, I excluded 
either of the players FreeDOS and DOSEMU and tested. In both cases I've got 
probelms, which means that both DOSEMU and FreeDOS introduce misbehavior when 
running this app.

If Daniel is lucky enough to pass by such trubles, he has all chances -- 
Daniel, don't give up; let me know if I can support you somehow.

Yassen