From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Cohen Subject: Hoo boy! This is going to be interesting. Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:19:59 -0500 Message-ID: <4CAF6EDF.5080506@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Okay, I am engaged in an effort trying to determine whether or not DOSEMU offers any hope as a path to porting a complicated legacy DOS application to more modern hardware as our stocks of available DOS-compliant hardware are diminishing to the danger point and replacements are no longer available. To that end, I've downloaded DOSEMU onto a Ubuntu 10.04 system and it seems to work reasonably out of the box. A very naive attempt to test the compatibility involved copying the executable in question to a drive accessible to DOSEMU, starting DOSEMU and running the application. I start dosemu by simply typing the dosemu command, and a "DOS BOX" comes up in a different window. All the normal stuff is doable. But when I cd into the directory where I've placed my executable and then execute it, it blows up the DOS BOX (closes it) and in my original xterm window I now see: OUCH! attempt to execute interrupt table - quickly dying Well, I said this was a naive attempt. But I have two weeks to get this to work. Can someone tell me what this error message indicates and where I might possibly go to figure out how to fix it? Thanks, Steve Cohen