Re: dosemu won't load

[Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com>]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:48:08 -0600
> Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
>> Also the soft links in drive_c now do not show up.
> 
> I create a custom user's desktop and whatnot and put that into /etc/skel.  That
> way all new users automatically get my custom desktop.
> 
> I also have a symbolic link in ~/.dosemu/drive_c to a directory under /opt
> where I keep the common databases that all users access through the dos
> programs.
> 
> I have discovered that if I have a ~/.dosemu/drive_c/link in/etc/skel,
> then dosemu somehow can't find the symbolic link.  "cd c:\link" in a new user's
> directory.  "cd c:\link" gives me a "chdir failed" error.
> 
> If I delete ~/.dosemu from the user's home directory, then run dosemu and allow
> it to create its own ~/.dosemu, then put my batch file and symbolic link into
> that directory, everything works perfectly.  And I have no idea why it would
> make any difference, but it does.
> 
> Do you perhaps have a similar problem?  What happens if you remove ~/.dosemu
> and then run dosemu?  Does it work then?
> 


All ok.  exitemu now working.
My world is complete.
Thanks very much Frank.

Larry