Re: Setting up new dosemu 1.3.3

[Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com>]

Claudia Neumann wrote:
> Am Montag, 10. April 2006 19:05 schrieben Sie:
>> I used to run dosemu-1.2.2 and was able to get a very nice dosemu window
>> under KDE with a large 12x21 font in an 80x25 window.
>>
>> Most of my dos programs require 80x25 and my tired old eyes really need
>> a large font.
>>
>> How can I get the large font with dosemu-1.3.3?
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> To run dosemu-1.2.2 I had a KDE icon with the command line:
>> kstart /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -geometry 80x25 -font 12x24 -e godos -x
>>
>> The xterm produced had a nice large font and 80x25 screen
>> with white background and,
>> godos is a script that runs dosemu after a two second delay
>> to give a large font white letter on black screen exactly the same size
>> and location as the xterm (convers it up).
>>
>> When the same setup runs now, it produces the large xterm, but when
>> dosemu runs it creates a separate small white letter on black window.
>> The window is 80x25 but the fonts are too small to comfortably read.
>>
>> How can I increase the larger fonts?
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-msdos&m=114374588406598&w=2
> 
> Claudia 
> 

Thank you very very much Claudia.  I copied your web page into my 
dosemu.nfo file.

After experimenting with the fonts installed by dosemu, I simply entered 
the 12x24 font I liked from with 1.2.2 from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
(not in /usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts) and it worked perfectly!
This makes my life a lot easier.

Finally I'm going to be able to use my old favorite dos programs (WS 
SuperCalc and Q&A) without eyestrain.

Do you have any advice for changing the white letters on black to 
something nicer like black letters on light background?

Larry

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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux