DecTalk and DosEmu

DecTalk and DosEmu

[Radical NetSurfer]

One thing we learn about Richard (RadSurfer) is that
he 
is no quitter.... trying yet another angle on this
DecTalk business he installs the very latest Dos
Emulator 
1.40 package.
Seems to run aok, more or less.
Problem is, the way linux is protective of hardware
access, the dt_driv.exe program never gets to actually
probe for the presence of the ISA card...

I just moved all of the actual DecTalk PC 4.2C dos
files into the DosEmu folder and gave it a try.
There has to be some tweaking that would allow the
ISA/DMA addresses used specifically by the DecTalk
card to be made available to DosEmu, and presto!

So far no luck.

If I log into DosEmu as root, I get entirely different
folders that if I'm regular user, natually.
and I haven't been able to get lredir command to let
me access a location of the dectalk files to copy into
a dosemu folder as root anyways. very nasty business,
but 
what the heck it if worked.

....still plugging away at it.

Lets vote on a 2.6xx upgrade to the DecTalkPC ISA
support!  There really are quite a few very decent
highend P3's still in use out there!

//Rich//


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Re: DecTalk and DosEmu

[Gregory Nowak]

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Why don't you try using freedos, and boot into it directly? That way,
you'll be able to do whatever you want, all under native dos, on your
physical box, not an emulated box. Also, you can run freedos as a
livecd, meaning you don't need to install on to your hd in order to
use it.

Also, the fact that you can't use your dectalk isa card under dosemu
isn't because linux is protective of the hardware. It is simply
because dosemu as far as I know, never has, doesn't, and probably
never will have the support necessary to address isa/pci cards and the
like directly.

Finally, the fact that you see different files when running dosemu as
a normal user and as root is no surprise, since in all likelihood,
you're running separate machines as each user. Think of it this
way, you have 2 physical computers, pc-a, and pc-b, which both have
dos installed. When you're running dosemu as a normal user, you're
using pc-a. When you're running it as root, you're using it as pc-b, a
separate machine from pc-a. Hth.

Greg


On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:53:24AM -0700, Radical NetSurfer wrote:
> One thing we learn about Richard (RadSurfer) is that
> he 
> is no quitter.... trying yet another angle on this
> DecTalk business he installs the very latest Dos
> Emulator 
> 1.40 package.
> Seems to run aok, more or less.
> Problem is, the way linux is protective of hardware
> access, the dt_driv.exe program never gets to actually
> probe for the presence of the ISA card...
> 
> I just moved all of the actual DecTalk PC 4.2C dos
> files into the DosEmu folder and gave it a try.
> There has to be some tweaking that would allow the
> ISA/DMA addresses used specifically by the DecTalk
> card to be made available to DosEmu, and presto!
> 
> So far no luck.
> 
> If I log into DosEmu as root, I get entirely different
> folders that if I'm regular user, natually.
> and I haven't been able to get lredir command to let
> me access a location of the dectalk files to copy into
> a dosemu folder as root anyways. very nasty business,
> but 
> what the heck it if worked.
> 
> ....still plugging away at it.
> 
> Lets vote on a 2.6xx upgrade to the DecTalkPC ISA
> support!  There really are quite a few very decent
> highend P3's still in use out there!
> 
> //Rich//
> 
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Re: DecTalk and DosEmu

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:21:49AM EST, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Also, the fact that you can't use your dectalk isa card under dosemu
> isn't because linux is protective of the hardware. It is simply
> because dosemu as far as I know, never has, doesn't, and probably
> never will have the support necessary to address isa/pci cards and the
> like directly.

This is in fact correct. I have run the DECtalk firmware loader under 
dosemu as root, and it has worked. Look at the dosemu config files in 
/etc/dosemu to find out more. You can tell it about specific ports you 
want access to, when running as root.
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a pdftotext question?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi all,
I did check the help file for this, yet I must be missing something.
I have a password protected pdf file to open.
I also have the password I should be able to use.
There are two password related options in pdftotext,
-upw for user password,
and -opw for owner password.
I suspect it is the latter that I need, but I am getting the same error 
when I try either.
there are several errors actually including that the name token is too 
long.
This leads me to think that the password should be enclose in something so 
the program does not think it is part of the file name.
Still the syntax looks like something that is normally removed.
Ideas at all?

Thanks,
Karen