Re: Can't get dosemu to run

Frantisek Hanzlik
2008-02-23T22:45:01Z

Mike Keithley wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have installed dosemu-1.2.2-bin.tgz and dosemu-freedos-b9r5-bin.tgz
> per instructions in README.bindist. It is installed on a Slackware 12.0
> box with the 2.6.21 kernel.
>
> The dosemu script won't run. I get the error:
>
> ./dosemu: line 404: exec: --: invalid option
> exec: usage: exec [-cl] [-a name] file [redirection ...]
>
> What can I do to fix this?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Mike Keithley
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It seems as Your installation is causing problem in "dosemu" Bourne
shell script. This script ("/usr/bin/dosemu" or maybe
"/usr/local/bin/dosemu") start dosemu binary "dosemu.bin" - probably
at line 404 via "exec" shel command. You should debug this script
for determining exactly why this call fail.

And only notice - I think You should try dosemu version 1.4.0, it is
much better than 1.2.2.

HTH,
Franta Hanzlik