Re: DOSemu 1.0.2.1, FreeDOS, and MS-DOS 6.22

["Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>]

Hi Ralph.

 >> I find that FreeDOS loads and works fine with lredir. But
 >> certain DOS apps important to me won't load with it. So I
 >> tried using MS-DOS 6.22 instead, by creating an msdos
 >> directory under ~/mydos/dosemu, and then copying my MS-DOS
 >> files to that directory (~/mydos/dosemu/msdos). I then
 >> changed dosemu.conf to point to 'msdos' instead of 'freedos'.
 >> This fails to complete its boot up. I see it go through some
 >> of the autoexec.bat and then do it again for some reason, and
 >> then wait for me to forcefully terminate the terminal session.
 >> Any attempt to use lredir is met with my seeing only the 'l'
 >> (from 'lredir') on the screen, and then I must forcefully
 >> terminate the session.

 > Here's what I see when I load dosemu with MS-DOS:
 >
 >	Linux DOS emulator 1.0.2.1 $Date: 2001/10/13 $
 >	Last configured at Sat Oct 13 18:55:24 MEST 2001 on linux
 >	DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed
 >
 >	Starting MS-DOS...
 >
 >
 >	C:\>PROMPT $p$g
 >	PATH C:\bin;c:\gnu;c:\dosemu
 >	SET TEMP=C:\tmp
 >
 >
 >	C:\>PROMPT $p$g
 >	PATH C:\bin;c:\gnu;c:\dosemu
 >	SET TEMP=C:\tmp
 >
 > I'm left with what you see above, with the cursor blinking on
 > the last blank line, as though it's waiting for another
 > command. If I hit ENTER, I see another single iteration what
 > you see above.

That looks like your AUTOEXEC.BAT file has the lines terminated
only with an LF character, suggesting they were created with a
Linux based editor. DOS in all its disguises requires lines
terminated with CR and most also require that CR to be followed
by LF although some just use the CR and treat the LF as a space.

Best wishes from Riley.
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