From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralph Alvy Subject: Re: DOSemu 1.0.2.1, FreeDOS, and MS-DOS 6.22 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:15:45 -0700 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EFCDE31.4090008@compuserve.com> References: <3EFBD061.6060706@compuserve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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