From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 28431 invoked from network); 18 Nov 1998 04:00:04 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 1998 04:00:04 -0000 Received: from mielke.ml.org (cpu2311.adsl.bellglobal.com [207.236.16.34]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA26399 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:00:03 -0500 Received: from dave.private.mielke.ml.org (dave@dave.private.mielke.ml.org [192.168.0.2]) by mielke.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA06611; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:59:32 -0500 Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dave.private.mielke.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA03015; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:59:29 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: dave.private.mielke.ml.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:59:28 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Mielke To: John Covici cc: blinux-list@redhat.com, recipient list not shown: ; Subject: Re: DOS limitations under Linux In-Reply-To: <36523299.ccs@ccs.covici.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, John Covici wrote: >Well, I did try the regular released versions of DOSEMU, but I got no >speech out of my Linux screen reader Your Linux screen reader will not work if you instruct DOSEMU to operate in console mode. This is, of course, because DOSEMU will then write directly to the console, and bypass the indirect path through the screen reader. >and the DOS screen reader didn't >work too well either -- You have to configure your DOSEMU COM ports so that they point at the right Linux devices. They have no implicit bindings. >many of the alt key combinations didn't work properly. Here you have a bit of a contradiction in goals. To get the ALT keys to work, DOSEMU needs to be in console mode. You actually have to be in a bit more than console mode, i.e. you have to instruct DOSEMU to use a new virtual console, and to monitor the keyboard in raw mode. Fortunately, there are escape sequences to do ALT keys and the like. Assuming that you're using the default settings for such things, the escape character for these sequences is whichever key on your keyboard generates the character whose decimal value is 30. On my keyboard, it's a CTRL-SHIFT-6. You can get a list of all of the special sequences by typing this key, and then typing a question mark. -- Dave Mielke | 856 Grenon Avenue Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario EMail: dave@mielke.ml.org | Canada K2B 6G3