Instaling Xfont

Instaling Xfont

[Alain]

Hi,

I am trying to install a cp850 font without success:

I dounloaded cp850.bdf.gz from http://aspell.net/charsets/
# gzunzip cp850.bdf.gz
the resulting file cp850.bdf.gz looks just fine
# bdftopcf cp850.bdf | gzip > cp850.pcf.gz
# mv cp850.pcf.gz /usr/share/dosemu/Xfonts
# mkfontdir /usr/share/dosemu/Xfonts
I edited the /usr/share/dosemu/Xfonts/fonts.alias and included
cp850        -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-ibm-cp850

but if I use $_X_font = "cp850" I get the message:
ERROR: X: Unable to open font "cp850", using builtin

What am I doing wrong? ( I tested many variants of this, including doing 
it in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and restarting the Xfont server

Alain

Re: Instaling Xfont

[Alain]

Hi,

I did manage to instal a CP850 font from Xfont-terminus-dos using 
aproximately the same method then the previous message.

Now the problem is: The cursor is still broken (is at 1/3 from the top) 
allways in 50 lines mode. And 43 lines do not work.

Please help,
Alain

Re: Instaling Xfont

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Alain wrote:
> Now the problem is: The cursor is still broken (is at 1/3 from the top)
This was fixed, upgrade from CVS.

Cursor and CVS problems

[Alain]

Stas Sergeev escreveu:
>> Now the problem is: The cursor is still broken (is at 1/3 from the top)
> This was fixed, upgrade from CVS.

I went to sleep very happy, but today I found some problems:

1) The cursor is fine, but completely disapears in Borland C 3.1 in the 
IDE. Thsi happens with any number of lines and with or without "$_X_font 
= "vga""

2) Now when I run NDN dosemu eats 90% of the CPU (any version including 
the very old 2.10 in real mode). If I open 2 or 3 dosemu sessions this 
is shared between them.

Alain

How to free CPU time?

[Alain]

What is the best method to release cpu usage inside dosemu?

The problem is: I have made a program that runs in a loop checking 
keyboard, mouse, network, etc.. It cannot call bios read key function 
and lock there. But I can release time in the event loop.

Should I do HLT, call int28 many times? If I do HLT, will it restart 
after "interrupt" events like keyboard, mouse, packet driver, timer 
(54ms), etc?

thanks,
Alain
PS: I still have the problem below, BC31 is important because most of 
FreeDOS itself is made with it...

> 1) The cursor is fine, but completely disapears in Borland C 3.1 in the 
> IDE. This happens with any number of lines and with or without "$_X_font 
> = "vga""