Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:39:19 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com, opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DOSemu again
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Jan Hubicka wrote:

> > a project which uses several DOS utils compiled with DJGPP and I *do* need to 
> > run it from DOSemu. I run DOSemu v0.63.1.6 with OpenDOS and everything seems 
> I recommend you to use 0.66.4. It requires latest 2.0.x linux kernel but 
I tried it also - no luck (I've got the binaries anly). Yesterday I compiled a
new linux kernel (2.0.30) and recompiled dosemu without the need for the
emumodule - no change.

> it works reilably for most djgpp apps(including allegro with small patch, 
> rhide, gcc etc)
> > to work fine except for DJGPP applications (DPMI and XMS configured for 
> > 16MB, no EMS and no other drivers) ;-(( Anyway, the situation is somewhat 
> > strange:
> > 
> >   - go32-v2 when run outputs just two newlines and no messages (seems like it 
> >     doesn't detect DPMI at all)
> >   - gcc -v behaves the same as go32-v2 (?!?)
> >   - all other applications either say 'Protected mode not accessible' (which 
> >     comes from CWSDPMI which seems to think that it's working on DOS with no 
> >     memory managers installed) or 'Loader error: No DPMI get cws*.zip' 
> >     (although DJGPP env vars are set properly and DJGPP is in path)
> Maybe you have configured procesor to 286/disbled DPMI set security to on 
> or some other bug since gcc seems to fail detect DPMI..
No, the processor is set to 80486.

> > Does anyone with longer DOSemu experience have any idea what might be wrong? 
> version of dosemu..latest version can be found at 
> ftp.suse.com/pub/linux/dosemu(or similiar path)
> if you still have problems send me your dosemu.conf.
I cannot get through to this site - on sunsite I've found 0.64.3 only.