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From: Hugh Lawson on 19 Feb 2007 17:00 On 2007-02-19, Ken Heard <ken(a)heard.name> wrote: > My original question was to find out whether there is anybody on the > list who still uses dosemu. Hello Ken, I don't use dosemu very much, but I have played with it, to the extent of getting WordPerfect 5.1, running under dosemu, to print a one-line file. I've played with both the debian package and a binary package which is the one I have now. I've never tried any games. -- Hugh Lawson hlawson(a)triad.rr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Ron Johnson on 19 Feb 2007 17:10 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 13:55, Ken Heard wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/18/07 21:43, Ken Heard wrote: >>> Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge >>> ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on >>> Etch. >> >> This is an example of a Bad Question. >> >> All we know is "dosemu" and "Sarge". No error messages or what >> you've done to solve it yourself or research it. > > Mr. Johnson, > > My original question was to find out whether there is anybody on the > list who still uses dosemu. I did so because if it turned out that > there were people with any current experience, besides me, with such an > old application, then I would be more specific. The last sentence was > merely a summary of my experience to indicate the nature of any specific > enquiries if I were to make them. It's still an example of a Bad Question. If you had provided more detail, then someone else having the same problem could find this thread and maybe see how you solved it. You still haven't told us exactly what problems you are having. I can get dosemu/freedos to work on my Sid system. (Well, it edits AUTOEXEC.BAT, and runs MEM.) A bug might also need to be filed against dosemu, dosemu-freedos or xfonts-dosemu. Or maybe you need to install a package. Or both. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF2h9HS9HxQb37XmcRAq5pAJ9vjZlrm9YZ98SKYFkL/+0B4R2nWQCdEdhR z/KGoOded8/bZHgZjv9HLqI= =4PlA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Ken Heard on 19 Feb 2007 17:40 Hugh Lawson wrote: > On 2007-02-19, Ken Heard <ken(a)heard.name> wrote: > >> My original question was to find out whether there is anybody on the >> list who still uses dosemu. > > Hello Ken, > > I don't use dosemu very much, but I have played with it, to the extent > of getting WordPerfect 5.1, running under dosemu, to print a one-line > file. I've played with both the debian package and a binary package > which is the one I have now. I've never tried any games. It is precisely because I want to continue using WordPerfect 5.1 and three other DOS based applications that I want to get either Dosemu or Dosbox functional the two computers -- soon to be three -- where in the last month I have installed Etch. I am not interested in games. I have already mentioned that I was unable to get Dosemu working in one box, actually my laptop. I was using version dosemu-1.3.3.tgz. After configuration I ran it, first as my user. The following was returned: "You do not have the DOSEMU vga font installed and are running remote X. You need to install the vga font on your _local_ Xserver. Look at the readme for details. For now we start with an fixed font, which does not display all national characters correctly. ... be warned ERROR: X support not compiled in or not found: ERROR: /usr/local/lib/dosemu/libplugin_X.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ERROR: term support not compiled in or not found: ERROR: /usr/local/lib/dosemu/libplugin_term.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ERROR: Terminal (S-Lang library) support not compiled in. Install slang-devel and recompile, use xdosemu or console dosemu (needs root) instead." Earlier I had copied libplugin_X.so from my Sarge box (it was not included in dosemu-1.3.3.tgz) and put it in the following location, which is not where dosemu seemed to have looked for it: /home/ken/dosemu-1.3.3/1.3.3.0/bin/libplugin_X.so libplugin_term.so I do not have anywhere. I then ran dosemu as root, the following was returned: "There is something wrong with your systemwide DOSEMU installation: /usr/local/share/dosemu is not existing, but was configured to contain the DOSEMU distribution templates." If Dosbox serves my purpose I will stop trying to get dosemu working. Of course, if I find that Dosbox does not serve my purpose I will work on Dosemu and report back in the next one-two weeks, when I have the time. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Ron Johnson on 19 Feb 2007 19:00 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 16:38, Ken Heard wrote: > Hugh Lawson wrote: >> On 2007-02-19, Ken Heard <ken(a)heard.name> wrote: >> >>> My original question was to find out whether there is anybody on >>> the list who still uses dosemu. >> >> Hello Ken, >> >> I don't use dosemu very much, but I have played with it, to the extent >> of getting WordPerfect 5.1, running under dosemu, to print a one-line >> file. I've played with both the debian package and a binary package >> which is the one I have now. I've never tried any games. > > It is precisely because I want to continue using WordPerfect 5.1 and > three other DOS based applications that I want to get either Dosemu or > Dosbox functional the two computers -- soon to be three -- where in the > last month I have installed Etch. I am not interested in games. > > I have already mentioned that I was unable to get Dosemu working in > one box, actually my laptop. I was using version dosemu-1.3.3.tgz. > After configuration I ran it, first as my user. The following was > returned: > > "You do not have the DOSEMU vga font installed and are running > remote X. You need to install the vga font on your _local_ Xserver. > Look at the readme for details. For now we start with an fixed font, > which does not display all national characters correctly. > ... be warned What happens when you install the Debian packages dosemu, dosemu-freedos & xfonts-dosemu? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF2jgjS9HxQb37XmcRAqXVAKDZG3Mm1WM/zWViTAClj6K2K3p3SwCfd2Bl /TEdGjxDTZqGY46L5cvR4Qs= =LMlM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Ken Heard on 19 Feb 2007 20:30 Ron Johnson wrote: <snip> > What happens when you install the Debian packages dosemu, > dosemu-freedos & xfonts-dosemu? Nothing, because these three packages are not in the Debian Etch/testing package repository, but are in Sarge/stable. Even so, in my Sarge box I did not use them because I found the dosemu package in Sarge unusable. So, following Jan Stumpel's "Dosemu for Dummies", (http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/dosemu.html) in my Sarge desktop I configured dosemu-1.3.3.tgz to use instead. Instead of freedos I used a "legal" version of dos 6.22 I already had. I did not use xfonts-dosemu at all. I used this setup to run WordPerfect shell 4, with WordPerfect 5.1 and several other dos programs running inside it. It did all I wanted it to do, even printing better than CUPS could do from other applications. When earlier this month I installed Etch in another box, naturally I wanted to run those same WP and other applications. This time I configured dosemu-1.3.4.tgz to use instead to configure the later version. I was able to get dosemu to start, with some messages which did not inspire confidence that I had a flawless installation. However, I did not have time to to see if this installation could do what I wanted it to do. Since I was and am time-stressed to get my laptop up and running I decided simply to transfer to it the files and configurations already working on the Sarge desktop. It was this transferred installation which gave me the results already posted. My mistake was thinking that I could transfer without change the same application from the Sarge desktop to the Etch laptop. In any event, I will not have time before next week either to see if I can get a newly configured version of dosemu, presumably 1.3.4, to work on the Etch laptop, or whether I can use dosbox instead. I will keep the list posted on progress, but not before next week. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
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