dosemu yet again: sorry

[Gene Collins]

Hi Greg.  You have three choices.  Set the suid bit on dosemu, which
means that everyone who runs it will have root privileges, not a good
idea.  Run dosemu as root, useful but not always practical.  Or edit
your /etc/dos/users file and give the appropriate users all privileges.

Gene

>I for one, think that's a grate idea,
>especially because many if not all blind people that use Linux are also famila
r with DOS.
>This would make a grate combination for thoes that still
>want to run dos exes, but do not want
>any dealings with the Seattle extortionist manoply.
>Greg
>
>P.S. I've got one more question for thoes willing to still answer them.
>I'm using dosemu 1.0.2.0 as an unprivalged user, and
>none of my com ports seem to work, even though I set them up
>correctly in dosemu.conf. This is also true for my
>system pc speaker. 
>Yes, I read the relevant docs.
>Is there anyone out there that could tell me how to solve theese
>problems or that could take a look at my
>/home/user/dosemu/conf/dosemu.conf?
>Thanks.
>
>
>On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:47:28AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> The recent posts on this topic, particularly those from Gene, provide the
>> best guidance on setting up dosemu I have come across. I want to suggest
>> that we take this thread into a file and link it via the speakup web site
>> for future reference. What sayest thou, Captain Kirk?
>> 
>> 
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