line 496 parse error

line 496 parse error

[Grigory Batalov]

I get strange error while starting dosemu in console:

   DOSEMU will run on _this_ terminal.
   To exit you need to execute 'exitemu' from within DOS,
   because <Ctrl>-C and 'exit' won't work!

   Hint: if you want $HOME as DOS drive D:, use '-home' option

   Now type ENTER to start DOSEMU or <Ctrl>C to cancel


Running unpriviledged in low feature mode
Linux kernel 2.4.18; CPU speed is 803152000 Hz
Dosemu-1.1.4.0 Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
In file included from builtin:496
Error in : (line 496) parse error
1 error(s) detected while parsing the configuration-file

--
Dosemu version 1.1.4, installed with doing mkbindist
and copying resulting tree to ~/dosemu.
It works in rxvt and as xdosemu.

Also I made RPM for system-wide usage, but there I've first
discovered this error. So I compiled dosemu without
patches and moved to ~/dosemu, and again with no luck.

-- 
 Grigory Batalov.

Re: line 496 parse error

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Grigory Batalov wrote:
> I get strange error while starting dosemu in console:
What does you dosemu.conf look like?
The tricky part now (when everything
is intended to be commented out) is
that when you uncomment some option,
you have to uncomment also all the
related options.
I.e. if you, say, uncomment $_sound,
you are forced to uncomment also all
the $_sb_xxx options, otherwise parse
error.
This is logical only partially, I think
this must be changed (non-trivial).

Re: line 496 parse error

[Grigory Batalov]

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On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 23:44:31 +0300
Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > I get strange error while starting dosemu in console:

> What does you dosemu.conf look like?

  ~/.dosemurc applied,
 /etc/dosemu.{conf,users} are absent.

> The tricky part now (when everything
> is intended to be commented out) is
> that when you uncomment some option,
> you have to uncomment also all the
> related options.
> I.e. if you, say, uncomment $_sound,
> you are forced to uncomment also all
> the $_sb_xxx options, otherwise parse
> error.
> This is logical only partially, I think
> this must be changed (non-trivial).

  I tought there is default options that
 can be overwritten with dosemu.conf or
 ~/.dosemurc ?

  Also some diagnostics:
 - When started under Midnight Commander
   (in console), dosemu works!
 - I use FreeDOS kernel 1.1.28.
   Versions are:

C:\>ver /r

FreeCom version 0.83 Beta 54 [Nov 13 2002 22:21:04]
DOS version 5.0
FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.28

-- 
 Grigory Batalov.

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Re: line 496 parse error

[Bart Oldeman]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Grigory Batalov wrote:

>   I tought there is default options that
>  can be overwritten with dosemu.conf or
>  ~/.dosemurc ?

yes, that's the intent and the relevant bugs that exist now will be solved
(as much as possible in 1.1.4.1).

>   Also some diagnostics:
>  - When started under Midnight Commander
>    (in console), dosemu works!

well as Reinhard Karcher reported, uncomment $_video = (off).
if you run DOSEMU from mc, an xterm, or in an ssh session, then it thinks
that it does not run on the Linux console and the bug you mention
(line 496 in the built-in global.conf) does not apply.

Bart

Re: line 496 parse error

[Reinhard Karcher]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:15:28AM -0500, Bart Oldeman wrote
> well as Reinhard Karcher reported, uncomment $_video = (off).
> if you run DOSEMU from mc, an xterm, or in an ssh session, then it thinks
> that it does not run on the Linux console and the bug you mention
> (line 496 in the built-in global.conf) does not apply.
> 
Just one more observation: Don't use plainvga with $_video, you get the same
error. I suppose that the option plainvga does not apply to $_video but
only to $_chipset. Thus I suggest to remove plainvga from the $_video line.

Reinhard

Re: line 496 parse error

[Bart Oldeman]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Reinhard Karcher wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:15:28AM -0500, Bart Oldeman wrote
> > well as Reinhard Karcher reported, uncomment $_video = (off).

hmm, should be $_video = "vga"

> > if you run DOSEMU from mc, an xterm, or in an ssh session, then it thinks
> > that it does not run on the Linux console and the bug you mention
> > (line 496 in the built-in global.conf) does not apply.
> >
> Just one more observation: Don't use plainvga with $_video, you get the same
> error. I suppose that the option plainvga does not apply to $_video but
> only to $_chipset. Thus I suggest to remove plainvga from the $_video line.

yes. And as far as I can see this isn't a new bug. "plainvga" was also
invalid (not recognized by the parser) for $_video in older dosemu's.
"none" is a valid option, however.

Bart