DOSemu - Does it work?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> Richard Ebling wrote:
> 
>>   At any rate, when the Win9x clients accessed data hosted on (linux)
>> partitions shared via Samba (2.0x), there were fatal issues with the
>> file locking, as Samba implemented file-locking in a very different way
>> than the Btrieve-MSDOS layer meant to handle it.  I don't recall seeing
>> anything regarding changes to that particular aspect of things, in later
>> Samba releases (but I haven't been watching very closely, either).
> 
> 
> This is what I'm concerned about. This old app is written in Clarion. I 
> have no idea how it handles locking. It was using Lantastic for data 
> file sharing, but Lantastic appears to be a technology that has never 
> been implemented on Linux.
> 
> This one will be "homogeneous" in that there will be no mixing of DOS 
> and Win, so I hope that might enable it to work like it once did.
> 
> If any has a clue how a Lantastic app would behave on Samba, I'd sure 
> like to hear it.

Is Clarion the one based on Ctree?  The locking was done using a DOS add on 
called SHARE.EXE.  I would expect SAMBA to support the basic structure because 
it is all about sharing files.  Lantastic used a really fruit networking 
scheme.  They were a big proponent of arcnet (star) topology.  (At least that 
is what I ran Clarion on...)  Does your version of Clarion support other networks?

     -- Alma