dosemu and pentium 4

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:25:00 -0400
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. But the '15' I added did the trick. I guess you are not doing
anything with upper-case linux file names or names longer than 8.3, right?
I do realize that this is how dos 'was'. But dos on windows does allow
longer names and respects case. 


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Roger Oberholtzer
Sunny Stockholm