dosemu and pentium 4

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 10:05 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:51:54 -0400
>
> Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> > I'm running dosemu on a P4 (family=15) with no problems.  Foxpro 2.5
> > runs fine.
>
> I just modified the source to dosemu and added '15' in the appropriate
> place. Now it runs. Your dosemu is not from the original source.
> Anyway, after doing all this, I see that I will have a problem with
> the 8.3 and lower case file names. dosemu converts all file names to
> lowercase when looking for them in the linux file system. So, the
> 'lredir' command fails if the linux name has an upper case character.
> LOL.
>
> I will probably be fated to keep a box around for this sort of thing.
> Damn.

I'm running SuSE 8.2 and dosemu is running like it always had, but thanks 
for the heads up to possible problems in the future.

Perhaps the answer is to grab the dosemu RPM from the SuSE distro?  I'd 
be glad to send it your way.


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