Copy / Paste to / from Dosemu

Copy / Paste to / from Dosemu

[Victor Warner]

I would like to know whether it is possible to copy / paste text to / 
from dos applications running under Dosemu to / from Linux applications.

If so, I would be grateful to know how it can be done.

Victor Warner.

Re: Copy / Paste to / from Dosemu

[Ken Heard]

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Victor Warner wrote:
> I would like to know whether it is possible to copy / paste text to /
> from dos applications running under Dosemu to / from Linux applications.
> 
> If so, I would be grateful to know how it can be done.

You can't directly.  My workaround is to copy the text to a DOS text
file, such as the WordPerfect text editor, open that file in a Linux
text editor, such as Kedit, and then insert that file in the desired
Linux application.

As you can see the workaround is quite cumbersome.  I have many
important texts written when I was still using WordPerfect 5.1, parts of
which I want to incorporate in documents created in OpenOffice, which I
now use as my primary word processor.  The workaround described is how I
manage the transfer.

Ken Heard

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Re: Copy / Paste to / from Dosemu

[Victor Warner]

Ken,

Thank you for the reply. What you have written is what I believed still
to be the case.

However, I was intrigued by the following comment from Bart Oldeman
announcing 1.4.0.1:

"Improved copy and paste of text to and from DOSEMU."

But this is not explained further.

Victor Warner.

Ken Heard wrote:
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> Victor Warner wrote:
>   
>> I would like to know whether it is possible to copy / paste text to /
>> from dos applications running under Dosemu to / from Linux applications.
>>
>> If so, I would be grateful to know how it can be done.
>>     
>
> You can't directly.  My workaround is to copy the text to a DOS text
> file, such as the WordPerfect text editor, open that file in a Linux
> text editor, such as Kedit, and then insert that file in the desired
> Linux application.
>
> As you can see the workaround is quite cumbersome.  I have many
> important texts written when I was still using WordPerfect 5.1, parts of
> which I want to incorporate in documents created in OpenOffice, which I
> now use as my primary word processor.  The workaround described is how I
> manage the transfer.
>
> Ken Heard
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Re: Copy / Paste to / from Dosemu

[Bart Oldeman]

On 28/03/2008, Victor Warner <vwarner@woroner.com> wrote:
>  Thank you for the reply. What you have written is what I believed still
>  to be the case.
>
>  However, I was intrigued by the following comment from Bart Oldeman
>  announcing 1.4.0.1:
>
>  "Improved copy and paste of text to and from DOSEMU."

Use the middle mouse button to paste the current selection. Perhaps I
sometimes forget that this is a very common mechanism in X to copy &
paste because so many people are used to the ctrl-c,x,v way of doing
things now.

Sometimes you need to use shift too. The improved copy and paste
refers to "extended ASCII" -- before international characters could be
pasted into something completely different but now they are usually
translated to and from UTF-8.

Bart

Re: Copy / Paste to / from Dosemu

[Mike R Brown]

Kind of on the same subject line here but the inverse of it.  How do you 
get dosemu not to copy/paste with the mouse button.  I have an 
application that reads the keyboard expecting such entries as function 
keys and user entries.   If I accidentaly hit the center mouse button it 
sends whatever is in the copy/paste buffer to this program completely 
freaking it out and causing un-intentional actions to occur.  Is there a 
a way to comfigure dosemu mouse to act like it did in MSDOS?  The 
program does need the mouse and can interpet the outside buttons 
correctly but god help you if you hit the center button.

Thanks,
Mike

Bart Oldeman wrote:

>On 28/03/2008, Victor Warner <vwarner@woroner.com> wrote:
>  
>
>> Thank you for the reply. What you have written is what I believed still
>> to be the case.
>>
>> However, I was intrigued by the following comment from Bart Oldeman
>> announcing 1.4.0.1:
>>
>> "Improved copy and paste of text to and from DOSEMU."
>>    
>>
>
>Use the middle mouse button to paste the current selection. Perhaps I
>sometimes forget that this is a very common mechanism in X to copy &
>paste because so many people are used to the ctrl-c,x,v way of doing
>things now.
>
>Sometimes you need to use shift too. The improved copy and paste
>refers to "extended ASCII" -- before international characters could be
>pasted into something completely different but now they are usually
>translated to and from UTF-8.
>
>Bart
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Re: Copy / Paste to / from Dosemu

[Bart Oldeman]

On 28/03/2008, Mike R Brown <mikebr@sonic.net> wrote:
> Kind of on the same subject line here but the inverse of it.  How do you
>  get dosemu not to copy/paste with the mouse button.

I would say, grab the mouse (ctrl-alt-home) but that disables
selection but not pasting. You would need to apply a patch which is in
SVN now but you could easily put that into older versions too:

http://dosemu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dosemu/trunk/src/plugin/X/X.c?r1=1854&r2=1853&view=patch
http://dosemu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dosemu/trunk/src/plugin/sdl/sdl.c?r1=1854&r2=1853&view=patch

Bart

Unable to run dosemu under Ubuntu 8.04

[Victor Warner]

I have installed dosemu 1.40 with synpatic with ubuntu 8.04

"LOWRAM map: Invalid argument
Segmentation fault (core dumped)"

On trying to run it, I get this error message in console.

Is there anyway of solving this?

Victor Warner

Re: Unable to run dosemu under Ubuntu 8.04

[Bart Oldeman]

On 17/04/2008, Victor Warner <vwarner@woroner.com> wrote:
> I have installed dosemu 1.40 with synpatic with ubuntu 8.04
>
>  "LOWRAM map: Invalid argument
>  Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
>
>  On trying to run it, I get this error message in console.
>
>  Is there anyway of solving this?

Run
sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
as root, or
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr

Bart