Thanks, Andrew, the problem is only that I do not have much experience with Linux and I shall have to start with installing it! Dieter On 23 Oct 2007 at 18:40, Andrew Brooks wrote: Date sent: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:40:41 +0100 To: dieter.blaas@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: sensor on serial com timing problem under Win > 98 From: "Andrew Brooks" <arb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Organization: Dundee Satellite Receiving Station == www.sat.dundee.ac.uk > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:17:24 +0100, Dieter Blaas <dieter.blaas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Migrating to WinXP, I have tried to emulate DOS with DOSBox, > > VirtualPC, and VMWare but in all cases the data are wrogly > > interpreted in that the values are unreliable. This appears to be > > a timing problem. > > > > Does anybody know whether DOSEmu under Linux would do > > the job correctly? I am a LINUX beginner and would only try it > > when there is a good chance of success..... > > Given the pain you've already gone through (XP/DOSbox/VPC/VMWare) > I think you should just try it and see!!! What have you got to lose? > ;-) > > Andrew > > P.S. I've had reasonably good success with serial ports in dosemu. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dieter Blaas, Max F. Perutz Laboratories Medical University of Vienna, Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, A-1030 Vienna, Austria, Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, Fax: 0043 1 4277 9616, e-mail: dieter.blaas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
