Re: cp852 font - finally

["Andrzej Kaczmarczyk" <akaczmarczyk@visualsystems.com.pl>]

I have all the problems solved (at least those according to cp852 and 
multiple lines, the memory bug remains)

solution, for anyone else having the problem (assuming you have fetched & 
compiled recent freedos, dosemu from cvs)

1. download the cp852 (or any other) fonts 
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=XFree86-fonts-CP852
2. install them or copy them to X Servrs miscelanious fonts path. In my 
(Mandriva 10.2) case that was: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
3. run mkfontscale, mkfontdir, restart the X Server
4. add to the fonts.alias your new fonts, in my case I added:
cp852-8x13B  -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-cp852-0
cp852-8x13I  -misc-fixed-medium-o-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-cp852-0
cp852-9x15   -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-cp852-0
cp852-9x15B  -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-cp852-0
cp852-9x18B  -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-cp852-0

I have a 1024x768 so those sizes were apropriate

5. modify dosemu.conf
# I have polish letters at my standard console,
# if you don't then you need to use cp437 or iso8859-1
# or whatever you have your standard
$_external_char_set = "iso8859-2"

# that should settle the keyboard mapping
$_internal_char_set = "cp852"

# now the current font (one of the above added to alias file)
$_X_font = "cp852-9x15B"

6. at this point you should be having xdosemu working perfectly in all modes
you can switch them from within dosemu via
mode co80,25
mode co80,43
mode co80,50

note that the window size will change depending on number of lines

7. If you wish to run the dosemu form text console there is few more steps
8. modify your dosemu.conf
# this is magic, don't know what it does but it is needed
$_console=(1)
$_graphics=(1)

9. the next step depend on your graphics card
I have a SiS chipset PCI Card so
$_pci = (on)
$_chipset = "sis"

10. by this point you can run doesmu as root, to allow your users using it, 
change your sudoers file (again on mandrake this is /etc/sudoers)
I have them all in dosemu_users group, you can make one with
groupadd dosemu_users
now you add you user john to dosemu_users
usermod -G john,dosemu_users john

and add in the sudoers file
%dosemu_users    localhost=/usr/local/bin/dosemu -s

11. login as john
check the group with "groups"
run dosemu

dosemu -s

the warning will appear as you are using full featured dosemu, but beside 
that you should be logging in with no problem.

as above all modes should be working happily.

enjoy

CUIN Kaczy