Re: DOSemu 1.0.2.1, FreeDOS, and MS-DOS 6.22

[Ralph Alvy <ralvy@compuserve.com>]

Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Ralph.
> 
>  >> I find that FreeDOS loads and works fine with lredir. But
>  >> certain DOS apps important to me won't load with it. So I
>  >> tried using MS-DOS 6.22 instead, by creating an msdos
>  >> directory under ~/mydos/dosemu, and then copying my MS-DOS
>  >> files to that directory (~/mydos/dosemu/msdos). I then
>  >> changed dosemu.conf to point to 'msdos' instead of 'freedos'.
>  >> This fails to complete its boot up. I see it go through some
>  >> of the autoexec.bat and then do it again for some reason, and
>  >> then wait for me to forcefully terminate the terminal session.
>  >> Any attempt to use lredir is met with my seeing only the 'l'
>  >> (from 'lredir') on the screen, and then I must forcefully
>  >> terminate the session.
> 
>  > Here's what I see when I load dosemu with MS-DOS:
>  >
>  >	Linux DOS emulator 1.0.2.1 $Date: 2001/10/13 $
>  >	Last configured at Sat Oct 13 18:55:24 MEST 2001 on linux
>  >	DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed
>  >
>  >	Starting MS-DOS...
>  >
>  >
>  >	C:\>PROMPT $p$g
>  >	PATH C:\bin;c:\gnu;c:\dosemu
>  >	SET TEMP=C:\tmp
>  >
>  >
>  >	C:\>PROMPT $p$g
>  >	PATH C:\bin;c:\gnu;c:\dosemu
>  >	SET TEMP=C:\tmp
>  >
>  > I'm left with what you see above, with the cursor blinking on
>  > the last blank line, as though it's waiting for another
>  > command. If I hit ENTER, I see another single iteration what
>  > you see above.
> 
> That looks like your AUTOEXEC.BAT file has the lines terminated
> only with an LF character, suggesting they were created with a
> Linux based editor. DOS in all its disguises requires lines
> terminated with CR and most also require that CR to be followed
> by LF although some just use the CR and treat the LF as a space.
> 
> Best wishes from Riley.

Riley and Justin,

Thanks to both of you! I reloaded my autoexec and config files in a DOS 
text editor and all is well. Now I'm tweaking my dosemu.conf to 
accomodate the apps I need. While I have your ears, I remember there was 
a way to forcefully close a full screen console. I thought it was 
something like Ctrl-Alt-PgDn, but that fails to work. Am I close?

Ralph