Cheryl, Could you explain how to get dosemu started quickly with enough memory for MegaDots and not using com1? I've downloded dosemu-1.3.1 and want to gert to work. If you also received a personal message from me, I'm posting this again because you may not be receiving my e-mail again or I might not be receiving yours. My apogies to others on the list, but I think this might be of interest to some of them also. John On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I finally am able to use serial ports with dosemu; there is a bug in the stable > version that won't allow lock files to be created without suid root. I solved > this by obtaining and compiling the 1.1.3 version (development) from > www.dosemu.org. For any interested debian users, I understand that the > maintainer of the package has fixed the bug in our 1.0.2.1--whatever version and > the upgrade will be out shortly. > Pcisk and megadots both work with dosemu; you need to put in the number of > kilobytes for dpmi in the dosemu.conf for megadots to work. > The one catch turns out to be that brltty is stopped dead in its tracks, I > assume during the initialization process when starting dosemu. This does not > happen with speakup, however; speakup keeps > going right to the dos prompt and beyond. It isn't probably just the piece of > equipment being used, as I was using the same equipment for brltty and speakup. > However, it is possible to kill brltty before entering dosemu and > then start up a DOS speech screen reader on the same equipment. It is also > possible simply not to include the serial port on which brltty is running in > your dosemu.conf file. In that case, brltty keeps running happily on the dosemu > console as well as all other consoles during the dosemu session. If one does > accidentally leave brltty installed when starting dosemu, brltty dies but can be > restarted again on exiting dosemu with a restart command (chord-r with > braillelite), so apparently brltty > isn't completely killed. In fact if you assume it was killed and type 'brltty" > after exiting dosemu, you will probably be dealing with more than one brltty! > At any rate, I'm happy to have access to the serial ports under dosemu now. > thanks to all who helped. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703