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 > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> Speakup mailing list > > > >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Speakup mailing list > > > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? 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