Re: dosemu and com port problem resolved

["John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>]

Cheryl,
Could you explain how to get dosemu started quickly with enough memory
for MegaDots and not using com1? I've downloded dosemu-1.3.1 and want to
gert to work. If you also received a personal message from me, I'm
posting this again because you may not be receiving my e-mail again or I
might not be receiving yours. My apogies to others on the list, but I
think this might be of interest to some of them also.
John
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002,
Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> I finally am able to use serial ports with dosemu; there is a bug in the stable
> version that won't allow lock files to be created without suid root. I solved
> this by obtaining and compiling the 1.1.3 version (development) from
> www.dosemu.org. For any interested debian users, I understand that the
> maintainer of the package has fixed the bug in our 1.0.2.1--whatever version and
> the upgrade will be out shortly.
> Pcisk and megadots both work with dosemu; you need to put in the number of
> kilobytes for dpmi in the dosemu.conf for megadots to work.
> The one catch turns out to be that brltty is stopped dead in its tracks, I
> assume during the initialization process when starting dosemu. This does not
> happen with speakup, however; speakup keeps
> going right to the dos prompt and beyond. It isn't probably just the piece of
> equipment being used, as I was using the same equipment for brltty and speakup.
> However, it is possible to kill brltty before entering dosemu and
> then start up a DOS speech screen reader on the same equipment. It is also
> possible simply not to include the serial port on which brltty is running in
> your dosemu.conf file. In that case, brltty keeps running happily on the dosemu
> console as well as all other consoles during the dosemu session. If one does
> accidentally leave brltty installed when starting dosemu, brltty dies but can be
> restarted again on exiting dosemu with a restart command (chord-r with
> braillelite), so apparently brltty
> isn't completely killed. In fact if you assume it was killed and type 'brltty"
> after exiting dosemu, you will probably be dealing with more than one brltty!
> At any rate, I'm happy to have access to the serial ports under dosemu now.
> thanks to all who helped.
>
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