Re: Running DOS Foxpro under Linux

[Rajesh Fowkar <rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Raju and everybody,

Thanks for the help. My first question was funny because I thought that  what I
was running (FREEDOS) is some different dos emulator and DOSEMU is different.
But now I know that both are the same. Uh ?

I changed by dosemu.conf files reflecting /dev/hda1 as my primary partition.
Now I can run foxpro as well as all my programs from the Primary Win98
partition. It's wonderful.

Now the only problem I am facing is that I can not use ctrl+F10 to maximise
window in foxpro but the same works if I use ZOOM option  from window menu.
What could be the problem. At the same time all the graphical charactes appear
as ascii characters rather than the actual graphical characters in my packages.

Please help me anybody has faced this problem.

Thanking in advance.

Rajesh



On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, you wrote: > >>>>> "Rajesh" == Rajesh Fowkar
<rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >  >     >> Hi Raju,
>     >> 
>     >> You probably need to get DosEmu to boot off your primary MS-DOS
>     >> drive instead of the built-in drive emulation file of DosEmu.
> 
>     Rajesh> Where can I can DosEmu ?
> 
> Uh?
> 
> 
>     >>  I have the following lines in /etc/dosemu.conf (note: my DOS
>     >> drive is /dev/hda2):
>     >> 
>     >> #disk { image "/var/lib/dosemu/hdimage" } # use diskimage file.
>     >> disk { partition "/dev/hda2" }
> 
> 
>     Rajesh> I have added the line disk { partition "/dev/hda1" } to my
>     Rajesh> dosemu.conf since hda1 is my primary partition where
>     Rajesh> Windows98 and Foxpro for Dos resides.
> 
>     >>  I've commented out the primary disk (hdimage, which is
>     >> basically a DOS disk image in Linux) and enabled the primary
>     >> native DOS disk.
>     >> 
>     >> If you have WinXX on your primary drive you will have to use F8
>     >> or one of those keys to ensure that you don't try to boot into
>     >> Winduhs by mistake.
> 
>     Rajesh> This is little confusing. You have said that I will have
>     Rajesh> to press F8 to ensure that I do not boot in Windows. Are
>     Rajesh> you suggesting that I should boot into MS-DOS prompt mode
>     Rajesh> rather than GUI of windows. This is not my aim at all. I
>     Rajesh> want to use my DOS packages after booting into Linux.
> 
> That's right.  Like I said, if you already have Win9X on your primary
> MS-DOS partition, when you boot DosEmu off that partition it will
> automatically try to load the primary OS, which would be Winduhs.  In
> order to prevent that, you'll need to do those function key tricks in
> order to get a bare MS-DOS prompt rather than Winduhs, which DosEmu
> won't be able to handle anyway.
> 
> If you're getting confused, remember that DosEmu emulates a complete
> virtual system, so whenever I'm talking about booting DOS or Winduhs
> above, I'm referring to doing this booting *under* DosEmu.  Linux will 
> continue running anyway.
> 
>     Rajesh> Please clarify. Thanks in advance
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Raju
> 
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