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From: Clarence Dang <clarencedang@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: dosemu
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 12:51:29 +1000
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To: Andrzej Kaczmarczyk <akaczmarczyk@visualsystems.com.pl>
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On Friday 02 September 2005 20:51, Andrzej Kaczmarczyk wrote:
> try this:
> dosemu -E "programname.bat"
>
> mind that you must have that file accessible so either put into your root
> directory on "c:"
> or add a valid path into the autoexec.bat
>
> secondary add into your bat the exitemu line like this:
> cd programdir
> programname.exe
> exitemu
>
> that way you'll exite dosemu rightafter execution and you won't have to
> kill it

Alternatively, put "unix -e" at the end of your autoexec.bat  Then you can 
just type:

  dosemu "programdir\programname.exe"

It even handles Linux paths.  "dosemu -E" is the same but doesn't exit 
afterwards.

> what WOULD be nice (Stas do you hear me?) would be to add parameters to
> exitemu, so a linux process could evaluate succes or failure of the dos
> program execution.

Difficult.