dosemu and pentium 4

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:29 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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.

Not using more than 8.3 filenames but I do have the following statements 
in my AUTOEXEC.BAT:

lredir l: linux\fs/dos
lredir e: linux\fs/home/DOS-E
lredir f: linux\fs/home/DOS-F 

And those directories *are* in upper-case.

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         04/30/03 
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