Re: 1.2.0 binary install

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

Bart Oldeman wrote:

> But.. DOSEMU isn't as important anymore as it used to be and
> some distributions no longer have it.
Shame on them! I suppose it is inevitable as newer generations of
computer users have never heard of DOS.

> If another DOS is used; yes it's a bit of a waste of bandwidth
> but that's the price you pay. And anyways many programs (think
> about mozilla!) are much much larger than the 2MB DOSEMU rpm.
No, I am not worried about the bandwidth, it's probably more my
feeling that the dosemu C drive should be set up in a user's home
directory with its own DOS in it.

> 1.2.0 is in sid now.
Thanks for the tip! This must have happened in the last few days.
Pity that the Debian version does not have this handy
~/.dosemu/drives directory. In the RPM, apparently, there is a
drives directory, but it is in /etc. I think it should be in the
user´s home directory.

> So -- perhaps your DOSEMU for dummies page should point to the
> RPM instead?
I closed the page quite a while ago but received a resurrection
request recently, so the old version is back temporarily. I think
I am going to make a new version now I know how to make the binary
distribution work (see below). And of course I will point to the
RPM and also the .deb.

> About the font problem. I honestly don't know what is going on.
> Between rc1 and rc2 I added some attempts to desperate get xset
> +fp ... working but apparently there's still something broken,
> but only for some people; for me it can find the font just
> fine. Seems to depend on the X server configuration. But I
> honestly don't know... I just can't reproduce.
I also messed about a lot with xset, xfontsel, xlsfonts but
nothing helped. But I could finally make it work by changing
Xfonts/fonts.dir in the binary distribution (it is generated the
first time that xdosemu runs). Replaced the line

vga.pcf vga

with

vga.pcf -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--17-160-75-75-p-80-ibm-cp437

No idea why this is necessary. I haven't a clue about how X works.
Of course I don't know if this breaks other (non-Debian?) setups,
but if it does not, fonts.dir should perhaps be included in the
distribution.

Regards, Jan




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