Re: <REAL> Dos Fonts

Re: <REAL> Dos Fonts

[John Coppens]

On Mon, 09 May 2005 20:46:46 +0000
"Tel Geo" <tellabgeo@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe it's interfering with the ansi decoder as you say.    Can you
> tell me how to turn that off?

I don't think it would be working by default, but if you installed a
config.sys from a DOS system, the ANSI command would be there (I don't
recall the exact syntaxis - something containing ANSI.SYS)

I don't think you'll get things ever working reliably using only the
terminal (dosemu) version. I suspect that the unix terminal
escape sequences are active there too, which would complicate things even
more.

John

Re: <REAL> Dos Fonts

[Tel Geo]

>Check if you have 25 lines in the xdosemu screen. DOS needs 25 lines in
>most cases. What happens if you disable ANSI.SYS, as I said before? It is
>know to cause problems (in the real DOS). Very few programs (if any) use
>ANSI.SYS. Most access the screen directly for speed.

Hi John,

I've tried it with and without the ANSI driver.  It slightly better with the 
ANSI driver there.  Interestingly with pure DOS, it works either way.

As soon as have the time, I'll give the latest dev version a try and see if 
that's better.

Thanks,

T.G

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Re: <REAL> Dos Fonts

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Tel Geo wrote:
> The question is what should I do to
> get the best results to emulate Dos 
> fonts.
The only way to emulate the DOS fonts
is to use xdosemu (under X), and it
must be of a version 1.3.1 or CVS code.
Alternatively you can use the console
video:
$_console=(1)
$_graphics=(1)
and start dosemu with the root privs.

<REAL> Dos Fonts

[Tel Geo]

Hi,

I'm trying to get  a non-graphical Dos program to work in DosEmu.  For the 
most part things are going quite well but now I'm having a bit of trouble 
with the fonts.  The program is a text / character based DOS application.

I'm running RedHat 9, using DosEmu on the console.  I can never get the all 
the characters to be just right, and after a few operations parts of the 
screen will mess up.   (For example, one of the characters looks like a 
smiley face with a box around it.)

I've been experimenting with various settings, namely:
$_term_char_set  ('ibm' seems to have the best results)
$_external_char_set
$_internal_char_set
$TERM in the shell (tried 'ansi' among others)
/etc/sysconfig/i18n

but no combination I've tried has quite done the job.

The question is what should I do to get the best results to emulate Dos 
fonts.  If I need to use additional fonts from the web, that's is fine.  Any 
suggestions?

Regards,

Tell

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Re: <REAL> Dos Fonts

[Bart Oldeman]

Hi,

to elaborate on what Stas says:

it's possible to load fonts in xdosemu (not only 1.3.1, also 1.2.2,
but not in earlier versions).

If your terminal console setup, it's impossible with released dosemu
versions to show those smileys etc.
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/dosemu.html
has an explanation for that.

The root console as Stas suggested avoids that.

In the CVS (and soon 1.3.2) the issue is solved too, because the terminal
code is now utf8-aware, and has learned a few more tricks.

If you're not into development code and all you worry about is a messed up
screen, but can live with approximations for the smileys you may want to
use
unicode_stop
to move the console out of utf8 mode before starting dosemu.

Bart

Re: <REAL> Dos Fonts

[Tel Geo]

Hi,

I've tried it with dosemu and xdosemu and xdosemu is able to get the smiley 
with the ibm character set.  The only problem is that there is a "status 
bar" for this program at the program of the screen enclosed in "equals like" 
characters.  When going into some of the menus, this status bar gets 
"ruined" with other characters some time.  Everything else - printer, serial 
access, is working wonderfully.

I have the ANSI.SYS driver loaded in the config.sys.

I will try out the CVS version and see if that does it.

Thanks for the help.

T.G

>From: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>
>To: Tel Geo <tellabgeo@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: <REAL> Dos Fonts
>Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 21:23:41 +1200 (NZST)
>
>Hi,
>
>to elaborate on what Stas says:
>
>it's possible to load fonts in xdosemu (not only 1.3.1, also 1.2.2,
>but not in earlier versions).
>
>If your terminal console setup, it's impossible with released dosemu
>versions to show those smileys etc.
>http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/dosemu.html
>has an explanation for that.
>
>The root console as Stas suggested avoids that.
>
>In the CVS (and soon 1.3.2) the issue is solved too, because the terminal
>code is now utf8-aware, and has learned a few more tricks.
>
>If you're not into development code and all you worry about is a messed up
>screen, but can live with approximations for the smileys you may want to
>use
>unicode_stop
>to move the console out of utf8 mode before starting dosemu.
>
>Bart
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Re: <REAL> Dos Fonts

[John Coppens]

On Tue, 10 May 2005 21:51:26 +0000
"Tel Geo" <tellabgeo@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried it with dosemu and xdosemu and xdosemu is able to get the
> smiley with the ibm character set.  The only problem is that there is a
> "status bar" for this program at the program of the screen enclosed in
> "equals like" characters.  When going into some of the menus, this
> status bar gets "ruined" with other characters some time.  Everything
> else - printer, serial access, is working wonderfully.
> 
> I have the ANSI.SYS driver loaded in the config.sys.
> 
> I will try out the CVS version and see if that does it.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> T.G

Check if you have 25 lines in the xdosemu screen. DOS needs 25 lines in
most cases. What happens if you disable ANSI.SYS, as I said before? It is
know to cause problems (in the real DOS). Very few programs (if any) use
ANSI.SYS. Most access the screen directly for speed.

John