Re: dosgate/dosemu.

[Enrico Zini <zinie cs unibo it>]

On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 08:46:32PM -0500, dave m mehler wrote:

> 	Ok, does this mean get the package working under regular, non-linux,
> straight dos 6.22 or 7.0 and transfering it or using dosemu? If it means
> the latter, I have a partial dos solution ready to go, but I'm running in
> to a problem, and I know this has been commented on before on this list,
> running jfd for example, with a synth, there is no to poor cursur
> tracking at the commandline. This is not even factoring in dosgate yet,
> this is just using dosemu, jfd, and a synth. Does anyone have a fix?

The experimental setup script I wrote for dosgate expects a dos boot floppy
with a batch file called 'reader.bat' that starts up the screen reader.  It
then makes a disk image from the floppy and installs dosgate on it.

Unluckily, if there are problems with a dos screen reader under dosemu even
without dosgate, the only thing you can do is to tweak dosemu configuration,
like setting $_hogthreshold = (0) to improve responsiveness or similar things.

I would also be interested on mantaining a web page about how dos screen work
under dosemu, with suggestions on how to make them work or work better,
warnings about things that do not work and any other interesting comments.

dosemu authors could also be informed about this use of their work, so that
they could make dosemu run dos screen readers in the best possible way.


				Read you soon! Enrico

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