dosemu won't load

[Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com>]

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I am using dosemu on a 6 months old machine with Kubuntu 8.04 and it 
works perfectly.

This week I loaded Kubuntu 8.04.1 on a machine for my wife.
It loaded dosemu the first time with the stock config and autoexec from 
apt-get intall dosemu but am having some problems.

Both machines are running dosemu 1.4.0+svn.1828-1.

On the first machine that loads without issues, I took the stock freedos 
config.sys and autoexec.bat in the ~/.dosemu/drive_c directory and added 
some extra lines that run 4dos and nansi.sys in config.sys and sets the 
path to my liking in autoexec.bat.  I also have some soft links to 
directories in the drive_c directory.

In my wife's machine the behavior of dosemu seems to have changed.
It will not recognize the config.sys and autoexec.bat in drive_c but 
only looks at the config.lnk -> /etc/dosemu/freedos/config.sys and 
similiarly for autoexec.

Also the soft links in drive_c now do not show up.

I've attached my autoexec.bat and config.sys if the list will accept these.

Questions:
1:  Has the behavior of dosemu really changed to only recognize the 
config.sys and autoexec.bat in /etc/dosemu/freedos?

2:  How can I get dosemu to load my soft linked directories which should 
appear in c:?

3.  How to loadhigh certain programs like 4dos.com?  This dosemu doesn't 
seem to like devicehigh=.  Most importantly I'd like to not load 
command.com but instead load 4dos which is so much more versatile

Thanks for any help you can give me.  My wife used Windows 98 but I am 
changing her to Linux.  She uses some old dos programs like supercalc 
(spreadsheet) and Q&A (edit and data base program) and probably won't 
accept Linux unless she can use her ancient programs.  She likes the new 
fast machine though <g>

Larry Alkoff


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rem config.sys for DOSEMU + FreeDOS
rem note that the initial "D:" is set to "Z:" at the end
SWITCHES=/F
DOS=UMB,HIGH
dosdata=umb
lastdrive=Z
files=40
stacks=0
buffers=10
device=d:\dosemu\ems.sys
devicehigh=d:\dosemu\cdrom.sys
install=d:\dosemu\lredir.com z: linux\fs\${DOSEMU_LIB_DIR}/drive_z ro
shellhigh=z:\command.com /e:1024 /p


rem lba: config.sys for DOSEMU + FreeDOS
rem note that the initial "D:" is set to "Z:" at the end
SWITCHES=/F
DOS=UMB,HIGH
dosdata=umb
lastdrive=Z
files=40
stacks=0
buffers=10
device=d:\dosemu\ems.sys
devicehigh=d:\dosemu\cdrom.sys
install=d:\dosemu\lredir.com z: linux\fs\${DOSEMU_LIB_DIR}/drive_z ro
rem by lba: shellhigh=z:\command.com /e:1024 /p



rem lba: added this to config.sys.link above
rem ---------------------------------------------

rem uncomment for cdrom support (also autoexec.bat:shsucdx)
rem devicehigh=c:\dosemu\cdrom.sys

rem !!!shellhigh=c:\bin\4dos\4dos.com /e:1024 /p

rem device=c:\bin\nansi.sys
rem devicehigh=c:\bin\ansi.sys

rem new devicehigh c:\bin\nansip.sys


rem end lba
rem ---------------------------------------------