From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Alkoff Subject: Re: What kind of files are config.lnk and autoexec.lnk? Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:13:11 -0500 Message-ID: <49EA0A27.5000302@mindspring.com> References: <49E932B6.5070909@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49E932B6.5070909@mindspring.com> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: dosemu Larry Alkoff wrote: > I installed dosemu 1.4.0.0 on my wife's new Kubuntu computer. > > In ~/.dosemu/drive_c there is an autoexec.lnk and config.lnk file in > addition to the standard autoexec.bat and config.sys. The .lnk files > are in /etc/dosemu/freedos/ as config.sys and autoexec.bat. > > Apparently dosemu treats these files like Linux soft links and executes > them in preference to my own config.sys and autoexec.bat. > > I need to load my config.sys and autoexec.bat settings. > What is the right way to do this? > > Will dosemu even recognize config.sys and autoexec.bat if the .lnk files > are not present? > > In my own instance of Kubuntu I simply did a copy and paste of the text > from the .lnk files into config.sys and autoexec.bat and everything > works find. The identical files do not work in my wife's case. > > So I'm stymied and the spousal unit is peeved. > > Larry Alkoff In further experiments, I have found that config.sys and autoexec.bat in ~/.dosemu/drive_c is not executed. It seems config.sys and autoexec.bat in /etc/dosemu/freedos/ are being executed. Are these the files I should edit to make dosemu run the way I want? Larry