maybe ot: dosemu question

Thu Jul 12 16:37:58 EDT 2001

DR-DOS had a lot to recommend it. I had troubles with it, however. There
was just too much that it insisted on in its own way--and there seemed to
be penalties for not following suit. I'm sorry I don't recall the
specifics because it's been years.

For my money, I'd much rather use 4DOS (available for free download as
shareware) from http://www.jpsoft.com. Very, very cool. Supports lots of
unix type things that DOS doesn't, like alias. In fact, I use aliases to
redefing my 4DOS commands to be as unixish as possible with great success.

Of course, since speakup and linux, I don't do much DOS anymore.

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:

> shouldn't get into a row, but i tink everyone who wants to use dos should
> look at drdos 7.22. it has great networking support, a boot loader that
> boots linux, and various other things to do with linux since the company who
> made it, lineo, have now stopped making dos and gone into the embedded linux
> arena. i think go to ftp.lineo.com/pub/drdos or something similar.
> saqib
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <romualt at megsinet.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:22 PM
> Subject: Re: maybe ot: dosemu question
>
>
> > Thanks for the tips.
> > I actually already customized some stuff in dosemu.conf, and read
> README.TXT.
> > I have to say that I'm not finding freedos to be that grate.
> > So, it's good to hear that I can use something else
> > (I was thinking of pc-dos 7.0 which I have here and like the most out of
> all the different doses I've used).
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:30:49AM -0500, Gene Collins wrote:
> > > Hello all.  You don't have to use the free DOS that comes with dosemu.
> > > If you have DOS or Windows 95/98 installed on another partition, you can
> > > point dosemu at it in your /etc/dos/conf file.  You don't want to point
> > > to the raw partition however.  What you want to do is mount the
> > > partition, and create a symbolic link to the mount point in
> > > /var/lib/dosemu.  Then refer to the symbolic link in your /etc/dos/conf
> > > file.  Dosemu will happily boot whatever version of DOS it finds in the
> > > linked subdirectory.  You should still point to the original Free DOS
> > > image as a second drive for dosemu, since it contains some special
> > > dosemu commands, including the exitemu command, which you'll need to
> > > gracefully shutdown dosemu.  Other things you'll find of interest are a
> > > special mouse driver, and a special cdrom driver that will work with
> > > mscdex, just like the standard DOS cdrom drivers do.  If you intend to
> > > run the DOS part of Windows 95/98, be sure to edit your MSDOS.SYS file,
> > > and change the bootgui=1 to bootgui=0, so that you will boot without
> > > attempting to start the Windows part of the system.  DOSEMU does * NOT *
> > > support this.  When you boot outtside of linux, you'll have to type win,
> > > just like you did for Windows 3.1.  The other thing you should be aware
> > > of is that dosemu has its own built in himem and emm386 memory managers,
> > > so the ones provided by Microsoft aren't necessary, and won't work.  It
> > > is possible to change the extentions that dosemu will look for in the
> > > /etc/dos/conf file for autoexec.bat and config.sys.  I changed these to
> > > .emu, and made copies of autoexec.bat and config.sys, calling them
> > > autoexec.emu and config.emu.  I then customized these .emu files for
> > > dosemu, and left my standard autoexec.bat and config.sys files
> > > untouched, for normal booting outtside of Linux.  You really need to
> > > read the docs to pick up a lot of this information, but be warned, the
> > > docs aren't the easiest reading in the world.  But perhaps these tips
> > > will give you some ideas.
> > >
> > > One other thing I should mention is that the /etc/dos/conf file contains
> > > parameters for specifying how much of extended and protected memory you
> > > want to make available to DOS.  Don't be greedy and allocate all your
> > > extended, expanded and protected memory to DOS, or you'll find yourself
> > > in trouble.  Leave Linux at least 16 meg for its own use.  The cool
> > > thing is that after you get things properly configured, you will be able
> > > to run DOS on a virtual console, just like any other Linux application.
> > > The difference is that you'll have to use control-alt-<function-key> to
> > > get out of the dosemu session and on to another console.  The comments
> > > in /etc/dos/conf are your friend.  Read them carefully.  Make a backup
> > > copy of the file before you start editing.  You'll save yourself a lot
> > > of grieff!
> > >
> > > Gene
> > >
> > > >Sorry,
> > > >Please ignore.
> > > >I didn't realize that mscdex.exe and
> > > >the other commands I tryed didn't come with dosemu/freedos.
> > > >Even so, I can't imagine why typing theese commmands
> > > >would give me insufficient memory errors
> > > >instead just saying bad command or filename, or something
> > > >like that.
> > > >Greg
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:05:43PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > > >> Hi all,
> > > >>
> > > >> I know this maybe off topic.
> > > >> I'm trying to run a few programs under dosemu
> > > >> (one of them being mscdex), and keep getting a
> > > >> insufficient memory message. What can I do to increase
> > > >> the amount of memory alocated to dosemu,
> > > >> or how else might I fix this problem?
> > > >> Thanks in advance for any help.
> > > >> Greg
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
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