I presume dosemu wants to lock the ports it wants to use, but if something else is using the port it will allready have a file in /var/lock for that port called lck.devicename. On my system, /var/lock is a sticky directory 1777 and all lock files are ascii that is the process id of the process using the device goes in /var/lock/lck.device I may try dosemu and let you know how I go. Regards, Kerry. On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:34:28PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Solved the problem of megadots with dosemu. I needed to allot some kilobytes for > dpmi. It works, though asap was being a bit flaky. > At least this problem is clearly addressed in the dosemu howto! > the only drawback now is that it is apparently definitely a security no-no to > run dosemu as root with dpmi working, so I need to solve the /var/lock problem, > as does Greg just because he can't even run it as root. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
