DOSEMU
The DOSEMU team
Edited by
Alistair MacDonald
For DOSEMU v1.4 pl0.0
This document is the amalgamation of a series of README files which
were created to deal with the lack of DOSEMU documentation.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. DOSEMU modes of operation
1.1.1. Terminal mode
1.1.2. Dumb mode
1.1.3. SDL mode
1.1.4. Console graphics mode
1.2. Running a DOS program directly from Linux.
1.3. Using a different DOS
1.4. About this document
2. Runtime Configuration Options
2.1. Format of dosemu.conf and ~/.dosemurc
2.1.1. Disks, boot directories and floppies
2.1.2. Controlling amount of debug output
2.1.3. Basic emulation settings
2.1.4. Code page and character set
2.1.5. Terminals
2.1.6. Keyboard settings
2.1.7. X Support settings
2.1.8. Builtin ASPI SCSI Driver
2.1.9. COM ports and mice
2.1.10. Printers
2.1.11. Sound
2.1.12. Joystick
2.1.13. Networking under DOSEMU
2.1.14. Settings for enabling direct hardware access
2.1.15. Video settings ( console only )
2.1.16. Time settings
3. Security
4. Sound
4.1. Using the MPU-401 "Emulation"
4.2. The MIDI daemon
4.3. Disabling the Emulation at Runtime
5. Using Lredir
5.1. how do you use it?
5.2. Other alternatives using Lredir
6. Running dosemu as a normal user
7. Using CDROMS
7.1. The built-in driver
8. Using X
8.1. Basic information
8.2. More detailed information, hints and tips
8.3. The VGA Emulator
9. Running Windows under DOSEMU
9.1. Mouse in Windows under DOSEMU
9.2. Windows 3.x in SVGA modes
9.3. VxD support
9.4. DOS shell in Windows
10. The DOSEMU mouse
10.1. Setting up the emulated mouse in DOSEMU
10.2. Problems
11. Mouse Garrot
12. Running a DOS application directly from Unix shell
12.1. Using unix -e in autoexec.bat
12.2. Using the keystroke facility.
12.3. Using an input file
12.4. Running DOSEMU within a cron job
13. Commands & Utilities
13.1. Programs
13.2. Drivers
14. Keymaps
15. Networking using DOSEMU
15.1. Direct NIC access
15.2. Virtual networking
15.2.1. Bridging
15.2.2. IP Routing
16. Using Windows and Winsock
16.1. LIST OF REQUIRED SOFTWARE
16.2. STEP BY STEP OPERATION (LINUX SIDE)
16.3. STEP BY STEP OPERATION (DOS SIDE)
1. Introduction
You can start DOSEMU using
$ dosemu
If you have never used DOSEMU before, and FreeDOS is present, then
DOSEMU will boot, and present you with a welcome screen and a C:\>
command prompt.
If for some reason it does not start, or DOSEMU crashes somewhere,
look at ~/.dosemu/boot.log for details.
Remember, that you can't use <Ctrl>-C within DOS to exit from DOS. For
this you need to execute exitemu or, when using the 'DOS in a BOX'
<Ctrl><Alt><PgDn>.
Your DOS drives are set up as follows:
A: floppy drive (if it exists)
C: points to the Linux directory ~/.dosemu/drive_c. It contains the
files config.sys, autoexec.bat and a directory for temporary files.
It is available for general DOS use.
D: points to your Linux home directory
E: points to your CD-ROM drive, if it is mounted at /media/cdrom
Z: points to the read-only DOSEMU and FreeDOS commands directory
It actually points to ~/mydos/dosemu/drive_z; it appears read-only
inside DOSEMU.
You can use the LREDIR DOSEMU command to adjust these settings, or
edit /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf, ~/.dosemurc, c:\config.sys, or
c:\autoexec.bat, or change the symbolic links in ~/.dosemu/drives.
Enter HELP for more information on DOS and DOSEMU commands. Note that
FreeDOS COMMAND.COM DIR command shows long file names if you type
DIR/LFN.
Other useful keys are:
<Ctrl><Alt><F> toggle full-screen mode in X
<Ctrl><Alt><K> grab the keyboard in X
<Ctrl><Alt><Home> grab the mouse in X
<Ctrl><Alt><Del> reboot
<Ctrl><^> use special keys on terminals (dosemu -t)
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1.1. DOSEMU modes of operation
There exist various ways of starting DOSEMU, depending on the
environment and certain command line options. By default, in X, it
will start using a special 'DOS in a Box' which provides a usual PC
setup, using a 80x25 text mode. It also supports graphics. The box can
be rescaled by dragging the window borders using the mouse.
However, in certain situation you may want to use a different mode.
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1.1.1. Terminal mode
Terminal mode is automatically entered if you do not have X available,
for instance when logging in remotely from a Windows system or at the
Linux console. You can force it using:
$ dosemu -t
In this mode the display of graphics is impossible, but you can use
full-screen DOS text mode applications. It is advisable to give the
terminal window a size of 80 by 25 characters, or use "stty cols 80
rows 25" on the Linux console, before starting it because many DOS
applications are confused about other sizes.
You can use the $_internal_char_set option in ~/.dosemurc or
dosemu.conf to change the code page that DOSEMU thinks that DOS is
using.
Many terminals do not support various function key combinations. On
the Linux console you can work around that by using the raw keyboard
mode (-k flag, or $_rawkeyboard). xterm's support many key
combinations. In other cases you'll have to work around it using the
special Ctrl-^ shortcut (Ctrl-6 on US keyboards). Press Ctrl-^ h for
help.
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1.1.2. Dumb mode
For DOS applications that only read from standard input and write to
standard output, without any full-screen usage, you can use dumb mode.
To use this you must invoke DOSEMU like
$ dosemu -dumb
this has the advantage that (A) the output of the DOS application
stacks up in your scroll buffer and (B) you can redirect it to a file
such as
$ dosemu -dumb dir > listing
Note that editing is often restricted to BACKSPACE'ing.
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1.1.3. SDL mode
You can start dosemu with the "-S" option to use the SDL library. In X
it will just look like a regular DOS in a Box but with a different
shaped text mode mouse cursor. You can also use this mode on frame
buffer consoles.
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1.1.4. Console graphics mode
Console graphics mode is the hardest to setup and may potentially lock
up your system, but if it works it gives you direct VGA hardware
access which may be quicker and more accurate than the emulation used
in X.
You need root rights to use it. To enable it, it is recommended to use
"sudo":
* install sudo if you haven't already done so
* use visudo as root to add entries such as
joeuser hostname=(root) PASSWD: /usr/local/bin/dosemu.bin
to your /etc/sudoers file, where "joeuser" is the user who is
allowed to run privileged DOSEMU and "hostname" is the name of
your current host (use "ALL" for any host).
* if you change PASSWD to NOPASSWD then joeuser does not need to
type the user's password (not root's password) when invoking
DOSEMU (a little less secure, if somebody hacks into joeuser's
account).
* now invoke DOSEMU using dosemu -s
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1.2. Running a DOS program directly from Linux.
You can use something like
dosemu "/home/clarence/games/commander keen/keen1.exe"
which will automatically cause the DOS in DOSEMU to
* "cd" to the correct directory,
* execute the program automagically,
* and quit DOSEMU when finished.
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1.3. Using a different DOS
It is possible to use a different DOS than the supplied FreeDOS in
DOSEMU. A straightforward way is to just copy the relevant system
files (io.sys, msdos.sys, etc.) to ~/.dosemu/drive_c, and then the
next time you run dosemu it will automatically use them. You may need
to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat though, if the DOS complains.
Another way is to boot directly from a Linux mounted FAT partition,
with Windows 9x or any DOS installed. You can change the C: drive to
point to that by using dosemu -i.
In that case the DOSEMU support commands are available on drive D:
instead of drive Z:. You might want to use different config.sys and
autoexec.bat files with your DOS. For example, you can try to copy
D:\config.emu and D:\autoemu.bat to C:\, adjust them, and use the
$_emusys option in ~/.dosemurc or dosemu.conf.
Manual adjustment of the C: drive is also possible, by changing the
~/.dosemu/drives/c symbolic link or by specifying it explicitly using
the $_hdimage run-time option.
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1.4. About this document
The rest of this document goes into more detail about all the
different settings and possibilities. This documentation is derived
from a number of smaller documents. This makes it easier for
individuals to maintain the documentation relevant to their area of
expertise. Previous attempts at documenting DOSEMU failed because the
documentation on a large project like this quickly becomes too much
for one person to handle.
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2. Runtime Configuration Options
This section of the document by Hans, <lermen@fgan.de>. Last updated
on May 4, 2007, by Bart Oldeman.
Most of DOSEMU configuration is done during runtime and per default it
can use the system wide configuration file dosemu.conf (which is often
situated in /etc or /etc/dosemu) optionally followed by the users
~/.dosemurc and additional configurations statements on the
commandline (-I option). If /etc/dosemu.users exists then dosemu.conf
is searched for in /etc and otherwise in /etc/dosemu (or an
alternative sysconfdir compiletime-setting).
The default dosemu.conf and ~/.dosemurc have all settings commented
out for documentation purposes; the commented out values are the ones
that DOSEMU uses by default. Note that a non-suid type of installation
does not need the dosemu.users and dosemu.conf files, and the main
per-user configuration file is $HOME/.dosemurc. However, for security
reasons, a suid-root installation will not run without dosemu.users,
and in that case certain dosemu.conf settings are ignored by
~/.dosemurc.
In fact dosemu.conf and ~/.dosemurc (which have identical syntax) are
included by the systemwide configuration script global.conf which, by
default, is built into the DOSEMU binary. As a normal user you won't
ever think on editing this, only dosemu.conf and your personal
~/.dosemurc. The syntax of global.conf is described in detail in
README-tech.txt, so this is skipped here. However, the option -I
string too uses the same syntax as global.conf, hence, if you are
doing some special stuff (after you got familar with DOSEMU) you may
need to have a look there.
The first file expected (and interpreted) before any other
configuration (such as global.conf, dosemu.conf and ~/.dosemurc) is
/etc/dosemu.users or /etc/dosemu/dosemu.users. As mentioned above,
this file is entirely optional for non-suid-root (default)
installations. Within this file the general permissions are set:
* which users are allowed to use DOSEMU.
* which users are allowed to use DOSEMU suid root.
* which users are allowed to have a private lib dir.
* what kind of access class the user belongs to.
* what special configuration stuff the users needs
and further more:
* whether the lib dir (DOSEMU_LIB_DIR) resides elsewhere.
* setting the loglevel.
Except for lines starting with `xxx=' (explanation below), each line
in dosemu.user corresponds to exactly one valid user count, the
special user `all' means any user not mentioned earlier. Format:
[ <login> | all ] [ confvar [ confvar [ ... ] ] ]
The below example is from etc/dosemu.users.secure, which you may copy
to /etc/dosemu.users.
root c_all # root is allowed to do all weird things
nobody nosuidroot guest # variable 'guest' is checked in global.conf
# to allow only DEXE execution
guest nosuidroot guest # login guest treated as `nobody'
myfriend c_all unrestricted private_setup
myboss nosuidroot restricted private_setup
all nosuidroot restricted # all other users have normal user restrictions
Note that the above `restricted' is checked in global.conf and will
disable all secure relevant feature. Setting `guest' will force
setting `restricted' too.
The use of `nosuidroot' will force a suid root dosemu binary to exit,
the user may however use a non-suid root copy of the binary. For more
information on this look at README-tech, chapter 11.1 `Privileges and
Running as User'
Giving the keyword `private_setup' to a user means he/she can have a
private DOSEMU lib under $HOME/.dosemu/lib. If this directory is
existing, DOSEMU will expect all normally under DOSEMU_LIB_DIR within
that directory. As this would be a security risk, it only will be
allowed, if the used DOSEMU binary is non-suid-root. If you really
trust a user you may additionally give the keyword `unrestricted',
which will allow this user to execute a suid-root binary even on a
private lib directory (though, be aware).
In addition, dosemu.users can be used to define some global settings,
which must be known before any other file is accessed, such as:
default_lib_dir= /opt/dosemu # replaces DOSEMU_LIB_DIR
log_level= 2 # highest log level
With `default_lib_dir=' you may move DOSEMU_LIB_DIR elsewhere, this
mostly is interesting for distributors, who want it elsewhere but
won't patch the DOSEMU source just for this purpose. But note, the
dosemu supplied scripts and helpers may need some adaption too in
order to fit your new directory.
The `log_level=' can be 0 (never log) or 1 (log only errors) or 2 (log
all) and controls the ammount written to the systems log facility
(notice). This keyword replaces the former /etc/dosemu.loglevel file,
which now is obsolete.
Nevertheless, for a first try of DOSEMU you may prefer
etc/dosemu.users.easy, which just contains
root c_all
all c_all
to allow everybody all weird things. For more details on security
issues have a look at chapter 3.
After the file dosemu.users, the file dosemu.conf (via global.conf,
which may be built-in) is interpreted, and only during global.conf
parsing the access to all configuration options is allowed.
dosemu.conf normally lives in the same directory as dosemu.users, for
instance /etc/dosemu or /etc (that is, sysconfdir in
compiletime-settings). Your personal ~/.dosemurc is included directly
after dosemu.conf, but has less access rights (in fact the lowest
level), all variables you define within ~/.dosemurc transparently are
prefixed with `dosemu_' such that the normal namespace cannot be
polluted (and a hacker cannot overwrite security relevant enviroment
variables). Within global.conf only those ~/.dosemurc created
variables, that are needed are taken over and may overwrite those
defined in dosemu.conf.
The dosemu.conf (global.conf) may check for the configuration
variables, that are set in dosemu.users and optionaly include further
configuration files. But once dosemu.conf (global.conf) has finished
interpretation, the access to secure relevant configurations is
(class-wise) restricted while the following interpretation of (old)
.dosrc and -I statements.
For more details on security settings/issues look at README-tech.txt,
for now (using DOSEMU the first time) you should need only the below
description of dosemu.conf (~/.dosemurc)
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2.1. Format of dosemu.conf and ~/.dosemurc
All settings are variables, and have the form of
$_xxx = (n)
or
$_zzz = "s"
where `n' is a numerical or boolean value and `s' is a string. Note
that the brackets are important, else the parser will not decide for a
number expression. For numbers you may have complete expressions (
such as (2*1024) ) and strings may be concatenated such as
$_zzz = "This is a string containing '", '"', "' (quotes)"
Hence a comma separated list of strings is concatenated. All these
settings are also environment variables. You can override them by
prefixing with dosemu_, e.g.
dosemu__X_title="DOS was in the BOX" dosemu
temporarily changes the X window title.
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2.1.1. Disks, boot directories and floppies
The parameter settings are tailored to fit the recommended usage of
disk and floppy access. There are other methods too, but for these you
have to look at README-tech.txt (and you may need to modify
global.conf). We strongly recommend that you use the proposed
techique. Here the normal setup:
# List of hdimages or boot directories under
# ~/.dosemu, the system config directory (/etc/dosemu by default), or
# syshdimagedir (/var/lib/dosemu by default) assigned in this order
# such as "hdimage_c directory_d hdimage_e"
# Absolute pathnames are also allowed.
$_hdimage = "drives/*"
$_vbootfloppy = "" # if you want to boot from a virtual floppy:
# file name of the floppy image under DOSEMU_LIB_DI
R
# e.g. "floppyimage" disables $_hdimage
# "floppyimage +hd" does _not_ disable $_hdima
ge
$_floppy_a ="threeinch" # or "fiveinch" or empty, if not existing
$_floppy_b = "" # dito for B:
$_cdrom = "/dev/cdrom" # list of CDROM devices
A hdimage is a file containing a virtual image of a DOS-FAT
filesystem. Once you have booted it, you (or autoexec.bat) can use
`lredir' to access any directory in your Linux tree as DOS drive (a -t
msdos mounted too). Look at chapter 5 (Using Lredir) for more details.
If you want to create your own hdimage use "mkfatimage16" (see the
manual page). To make it bootable you can make it, say, drive F:, and
use "SYS F:" at the DOS prompt. The DOSEMU-HOWTO explains how to
manipulate it using mtools.
You can also specify a Linux directory containing all what you want to
have under your DOS C:. Copy your IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS or equivalent to
that directory (e.g. DOSEMU_LIB_DIR/bootdir), set
$_hdimage = "bootdir"
and up it goes. Alternatively you can specify an absolute path such as
"/dos" or "/home/username/dosemu/freedos". DOSEMU makes a lredir'ed
drive out of it and can boot from it. You can edit the config.sys and
the autoexec.bat within this directory before you start dosemu.
Further more, you may have a more sohisticated setup. Given you want
to run the same DOS drive as you normal have when booting into native
DOS, then you just mount you DOS partition under Linux (say to /dos)
and put links to its subdirectories into the boot dir. This way you
can decide which files/directories have to be visible under DOSEMU and
which have to be different. Here a small and not complete example
bootdir setup:
config.sys
autoexec.bat
command.com -> /dos/command.com
io.sys -> /dos/io.sys
msdos.sys -> /dos/msdos.sys
dos -> /dos/dos
bc -> /dos/bc
windows -> /dos/windows
As a further enhancement of your drives setup you may even use the
following strategy: given you have the following directory structure
in one the directories where the $_hdimage setting applies (this is
done by default in ~/.dosemu and in /etc/dosemu)
drives/c
drives/d
where c and d are symbolic links to appropriate DOS useable
directories, then the following single statement
$_hdimage = "drives/*"
will assign all these directories to drive C: and D: respectively.
Note, however, that the order in which the directories under drives/*
are assigned comes from the order given by /bin/ls. Hence the folling
drives/x
drives/a
will assign C: to drives/a and D: to drives/x, keep that in mind.
Now, what does the above `vbootfloppy' mean? Instead of booting from a
virtual `disk' you may have an image of a virtual `floppy' which you
just created such as `dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy_image'. If this floppy
contains a bootable DOS, then
$_vbootfloppy = "floppy_image"
will boot that floppy. Once running in DOS you can make the floppy
available by (virtually) removing the `media' via `bootoff.com'. If
want the disk access specified via `$_hdimage' anyway, you may add the
keyword `+hd' such as
$_vbootfloppy = "floppy_image +hd"
In some rare cases you may have problems accessing Lredir'ed drives
(especially when your DOS application refuses to run on a 'network
drive'), For this to overcome you may need to use so-called `partition
access', use a floppy (or a "vbootfloppy"), or a special-purpose
hdimage. The odd with partition access is, that you never should have
those partition mounted in the Linux file system at the same time as
you use it in DOSEMU (which is quite uncomfortable and dangerous on a
multitasking OS such as Linux ). Though DOSEMU checks for mounted
partitions, there may be races that are not caught. In addition, when
your DOSEMU crashes, it may leave some FAT sectors unflushed to the
disk, hence destroying the partition. Anyway, if you think you need
it, you must have r/w access to the partition in /dev, and you have to
`assign' real DOS partitions as follows:
$_hdimage = "hdimage.first /dev/hda1 /dev/sdc4:ro"
The above will have `hdimage.first' as booted drive C:, /dev/hda1 as
D: (read/write) and /dev/sdc4 as E: (readonly). You may have any kind
of order within `$_hdimage', hence
$_hdimage = "/dev/hda1 hdimage.first /dev/sdc4:ro"
would have /dev/hda1 as booted drive C:. Note that the access to the
/dev/* devices must be exclusive (no other process should use it)
except for `:ro'.
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2.1.2. Controlling amount of debug output
DOSEMU will help you find problems, when you enable its debug
messages. These will go into the file, that you defined via the `-o
file' or `-O' commandline option (the latter prints to stderr). If you
do not specify any -O or -o switch, then the log output will be
written to ~/.dosemu/boot.log. You can preset the kind of debug output
via
$_debug = "-a"
where the string contains all you normally may pass to the `-D'
commandline option (look at the man page for details).
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2.1.3. Basic emulation settings
Whether a numeric processor should be shown to the DOS space
$_mathco = (on)
Which type of CPU should be emulated (NOTE: this is not the one you
are running on, but your setting may not exeed the capabilities of the
running CPU). Valid values are: 80[345]86
$_cpu = (80386)
To let DOSEMU use the Pentium cycle counter (if availabe) to do better
timing use the below
$_rdtsc = (off) # or on
Note that the RDTSC can be unreliable on SMP systems, and in
combination with power management (APM/ACPI).
For the above `rdtsc' feature DOSEMU needs to know the exact CPU
clock, it normally calibrates it itself, but is you encounter a wrong
mesurement you may overide it such as
$_cpuspeed = (166.666) # 0 = let DOSEMU calibrate
If you have a PCI board you may allow DOSEMU to access the PCI
configuration space by defining the below
$_pci = (auto) # or auto, or off
NOTE: `$_pci' can not be overwritten by ~/.dosemurc. The "on" setting
can be very dangerous because it gives DOSEMU complete write access;
you need to edit dosemu.users to enable it. In console graphics mode,
some video card BIOSes need some PCI configuration space access, which
is enabled by the default (auto) setting. This setting is far more
restricted and less dangerous.
Starting with dosemu-1.0 there is a flexible way to handle the mapping
strategy used by DOSEMU, which is needed by video emulation, EMS, DPMI
and XMS support and other things to map a given page of memory to the
required virtual DOS address space.
Normally DOSEMU will detect the proper mapping driver for the kernel
you are using, however, in some cases you may want to define it
explicitely to overcome eventual problems. For this you can specify
$_mapping= "mapfile"
to force the use of the driver, which uses a temporary file.
If you are using a kernel above 2.3.40, you may use
$_mapping= "mapshm"
which uses a POSIX shared memory object (the default) or
$_mapping= "mapashm"
which uses anonymous shared memory (in case the above gives problems).
Note, that in case of `mapfile' and `mapshm' the size of the file or
the segment depend on how much memory you configured for XMS, EMS and
DPMI (see below). You should take care yourself that you have enough
diskspace for 'mapfile'. For 'mapshm' the tmpfs mount option
'size=nbytes' controls the amount of space; by default it is half of
the (real machine) memory.
Defining the memory layout, which DOS should see:
$_xms = (8192) # in Kbyte
$_ems = (2048) # in Kbyte
$_ems_frame = (0xe400)
$_dpmi = (0x5000) # in Kbyte
$_dosmem = (640) # in Kbyte, < 640
Note that (other as in native DOS) each piece of mem is separate,
hence DOS perhaps will show other values for 'extended' memory. To use
EMS memory you must load the supplied ems.sys device driver. For XMS
memory you must either use a DOS XMS driver such as himem.sys,
himem.exe, fdxms.sys, or fdxxms.sys, or the internal XMS driver via
ems.sys.
If you want mixed operation on the filesystem, from which you boot
DOSEMU (native and via DOSEMU), it may be necessary to have two
separate sets of config.sys and system.ini. DOSEMU can fake a
different file extension, so DOS will get other files when running
under DOSEMU. Faking autoexec.bat cannot happen in a reliable fashion,
so if you would like to use an autoexec.bat replacement then just use
the SHELL command in config.XXX, like this:
SHELL=COMMAND.COM /P /K AUTOEMU.BAT
$_emusys = "" # empty or 3 char., config.sys -> config.XXX
$_emuini = "" # empty or 3 char., system.ini -> system.XXX
As you would realize at the first glance: DOS will not have the the
CPU for its own. But how much it gets from Linux, depends on the
setting of `hogthreshold'. The HogThreshold value determines how nice
Dosemu will be about giving other Linux processes a chance to run.
$_hogthreshold = (1) # 0 == all CPU power to DOSEMU
# 1 == max power for Linux
# >1 the higher, the faster DOSEMU will be
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2.1.4. Code page and character set
To select the character set and code page for use with DOSEMU you have
$_external_char_set = "XXX"
where XXX is one of
"cp437", "cp737", "cp773", "cp775", "cp850", "cp852", "cp857", "cp860",
"cp861", "cp862", "cp863", "cp864", "cp865", "cp866", "cp869", "cp874",
"cp1125", "cp1251"
"iso8859-1", "iso8859-2", "iso8859-3", "iso8859-4", "iso8859-5", "iso8859-6
",
"iso8859-7", "iso8859-8", "iso8859_9", "iso8859-14", "iso8859-15", "koi8-r"
"koi8-u", "koi8-ru", "utf8"
The external character set is used to:
* compute the unicode values of characters coming in from the
terminal
* compute the character set index of unicode characters output to a
terminal display screen.
* compute the unicode values of characters pasted into dosemu.
* compute the unicode values of characters in file names.
The default is to use "", which denotes the current locale, and is
usually the right setting.
If you set a DOS external character set, then it is to the user to
load a proper DOS font (cp437.f16, cp850.f16 or cp852.f16 on the
console).
$_internal_char_set = "XXX"
where XXX is one of:
"cp437", "cp737", "cp773", "cp775", "cp850", "cp852", "cp857", "cp860",
"cp861", "cp862", "cp863", "cp864", "cp865", "cp866", "cp869", "cp874"
"cp895", "cp1125", "cp1251", "bg-mik"
The internal character set is used to:
* compute the unicode value of characters of video memory, when
using DOSEMU in a terminal or using X with a unicode font.
* compute the character set index of unicode characters returned by
bios keyboard translation services.
* compute the unicode values of characters in file names.
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2.1.5. Terminals
This section applies whenever you run DOSEMU remotely, in an xterm or
on the Linux console without graphics. Color terminal support is now
built into DOSEMU. Skip this section for now to use terminal defaults,
until you get DOSEMU to work.
$_term_color = (on) # terminal with color support
$_term_updfreq = (4) # time between refreshs (units: 20 == 1 second)
$_escchar = (30) # 30 == Ctrl-^, special-sequence prefix
`term_updfreq' is a number indicating the frequency of terminal
updates of the screen. The smaller the number, the more frequent. A
value of 20 gives a frequency of about one per second, which is very
slow. `escchar' is a number (ascii code below 32) that specifies the
control character used as a prefix character for sending alt, shift,
ctrl, and function keycodes. The default value is 30 which is Ctrl-^.
So, for example,
F1 is 'Ctrl-^1', Alt-F7 is 'Ctrl-^s Ctrl-^7'.
For online help, press 'Ctrl-^h' or 'Ctrl-^?'.
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2.1.6. Keyboard settings
When running DOSEMU from console (also remote from console) or X you
may need to define a proper keyboard layout. It is possible to let
DOSEMU do this work automatically for you (see auto below), however,
this may fail and you'll end up defining it explicitely. This is done
either by choosing one on the internal keytables or by loading an
external keytable from DOSEMU_LIB_DIR/keymap/* (which you may modify
according to your needs). Both sets have identical names (though you
may add any new one to DOSEMU_LIB_DIR/keymap/*):
be finnish hu-latin2 sg-latin1
de finnish-latin1 it sw
de-latin1 fr keyb-no uk
dk fr-latin1 no-latin1 us
dk-latin1 hr-cp852 po
dvorak hr-latin2 sf
es hu sf-latin1
es-latin1 hu-cwi sg jp106
cz-qwerty cz-qwertz
You define an internal keytable such as
$_layout = "name"
where `name' is one of the above. To load a keytable you just prefix
the string with "load" such as
$_layout = "load de-latin1"
Note, however, that you have to set
$_X_keycode = (on)
to use this feature under X, because by default the keytable is forced
to be neutral (us). Normally you will have the correct settings of
your keyboard given by the X-server.
The most comfortable method, however, is to first let DOSEMU set the
keyboard layout itself. This involves 2 parts and can be done by
setting
$_X_keycode = (auto)
which checks for existence of the X keyboard extension and if yes, it
sets $_X_keycode to 'on', that means the DOSEMU keytables are active.
The second part (which is independent from $_X_keycode) can be set by
$_layout = "auto"
DOSEMU then queries the keyboard layout from the kernel or X (which
only does work on the console or X, but not in remote text terminals)
and generates a new DOSEMU keytable out of the kernel information.
This currently seems only to work for latin-1 layouts, the latin-2
type of accents seem not to exist so far in the kernel
(linux/keyboard.h). The resulting table can be monitor with DOSEMU
'keytable dump' feature (see README-tech.txt) for details).
When being on console you might wish to use raw keyboard, especially
together with some games, that don't use the BIOS/DOS to get their
keystrokes.
$_rawkeyboard = (1)
However, be carefull, when the application locks, you may not be able
to switch your console and recover from this. For details on
recovering look at README-tech.txt (Recovering the console after a
crash).
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2.1.7. X Support settings
If DOSEMU is running in its own X-window (not xterm), you may need to
tailor it to your needs. Here a summary of the settings and a brief
description what they mean. A more detailed description of values one
can be found at chapter 2.2.14 (X Support settings) of README-tech.txt
$_X_updfreq = (5) # time between refreshs (units: 20 == 1 second)
$_X_title = "DOS in a BOX" # Title in the top bar of the window
$_X_icon_name = "xdos" # Text for icon, when minimized
$_X_keycode = (off) # on == translate keybord via dosemu keytables
$_X_blinkrate = (8) # blink rate for the cursor
$_X_font = "" # basename from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*
# (without extension) e.g. "vga"
$_X_mitshm = (on) # Use shared memory extensions
$_X_sharecmap = (off) # share the colormap with other applications
$_X_fixed_aspect = (on) # Set fixed aspect for resize the graphics window
$_X_aspect_43 = (on) # Always use an aspect ratio of 4:3 for graphics
$_X_lin_filt = (off) # Use linear filtering for >15 bpp interpol.
$_X_bilin_filt = (off) # Use bi-linear filtering for >15 bpp interpol.
$_X_mode13fact = (2) # initial factor for video mode 0x13 (320x200)
$_X_winsize = "" # "x,y" of initial windows size
$_X_gamma = (1.0) # gamma correction
$_X_vgaemu_memsize = (1024) # size (in Kbytes) of the frame buffer
# for emulated vga
$_X_lfb = (on) # use linear frame buffer in VESA modes
$_X_pm_interface = (on) # use protected mode interface for VESA modes
$_X_mgrab_key = "" # KeySym name to activate mouse grab, empty == off
$_X_vesamode = "" # "xres,yres ... xres,yres"
# List of vesamodes to add. The list has to contain
# SPACE separated "xres,yres" pairs
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2.1.8. Builtin ASPI SCSI Driver
The builtin ASPI driver (a SCSI interface protocol defined by Adaptec)
can be used to run DOS based SCSI drivers that use this standard (most
SCSI devices ship with such a DOS driver). This enables you to run
hardware on Linux, that normally isn't supported otherwise, such as CD
writers, Scanners e.t.c. The driver was successfully tested with
Dat-streamers, EXABYTE tapedrives, JAZ drives (from iomega) and CD
writers. To make it work under DOSEMU you need
* to configure $_aspi to define which of the /dev/sgX devices you
want to show up in DOSEMU.
* to load the DOSEMU aspi.sys stub driver within config.sys (e.g.
DEVICE=ASPI.SYS) before any ASPI using driver.
The $_aspi variable takes strings listing all generic SCSI devices,
that you want give to DOSEMU. NOTE: You should make sure, that they
are not used by Linux elsewhere, else you would come into much
trouble. To help you not doing the wrong thing, DOSEMU can check the
devicetype of the SCSI device such as
$_aspi = "sg2:WORM"
in which case you define /dev/sg2 being a CD writer device. If you
omit the type,
$_aspi = "sg2 sg3 sg4"
DOSEMU will refuse any device that is a disk drive (imagine, what
would happen if you try to map a CD writer to the disk which contains
a mounted Linux FS?). If you want to map a disk drive to DOSEMU's ASPI
driver, you need to tell it explicitely
$_aspi = "sg1:Direct-Access"
or
$_aspi = "sg1:0"
and as you can see, `Direct-Access' is the devicetype reported by
$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
which will list all SCSI devices in the order they are assigned to the
/dev/sgX devices (the first being /dev/sg0). You may also use the
DOSEMU supplied tool `scsicheck' (in src/tools/peripher), which helps
a lot to get the configuration right:
$ scsicheck
sg0 scsi0 ch0 ID0 Lun0 ansi2 Direct-Access(0) IBM DCAS-34330 S61A
$_aspi = "sg0:Direct-Access:0" (or "0/0/0/0:Direct-Access:0")
sg1 scsi0 ch0 ID5 Lun0 ansi2 Direct-Access(0) IOMEGA ZIP 100 D.08
$_aspi = "sg1:Direct-Access:5" (or "0/0/5/0:Direct-Access:5")
sg2 scsi0 ch0 ID6 Lun0 ansi2 CD-ROM(5) TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5701TA 0167
$_aspi = "sg2:CD-ROM:6" (or "0/0/6/0:CD-ROM:6") <== multiple IDs
sg3 scsi1 ch0 ID4 Lun0 ansi2 Sequential-Access(1) HP C1533A 9503
$_aspi = "sg3:Sequential-Access:4" (or "1/0/4/0:Sequential-Access:4")
sg4 scsi1 ch0 ID6 Lun0 ansi1 WORM(4) IMS CDD522/10 1.07
$_aspi = "sg4:WORM:6" (or "1/0/6/0:WORM:6") <== multiple IDs
In the above example there are two scsi hostadapters (scsi0 and scsi1)
and DOSEMU will not show more than one hostadapter to DOS (mapping
them all into one), hence you would get problems accessing sg2 and
sg4. For this you may remap a different targetID such as
$_aspi = "sg2:CD-ROM:5 sg4:WORM"
and all would be fine. From the DOS side the CD-ROM appears as target
5 and the WORM (CD writer) as target 6. Also from the above scsicheck
output, you can see, that you can opt to use a `host/channel/ID/LUN'
construct in place of `sgX' such as
$_aspi = "0/0/6/0:CD-ROM:5 1/0/6/0:WORM"
which is exactly the same as the above example, exept it will assign
the right device, even if for some reasons you have changed the order
in which sgX device are assigned by the kernel. Those changes happen,
if you turned off power of one device `between' or if you play with
dynamic allocation of scsi devices via the /proc/scsi interface such
as
echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 5 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi
to delete a device and
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 5 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi
to add a device. HOWEVER, we strongly discourage you to use these
kernel feature for temporaryly switching off power of connected
devices or even unplugging them: normal SCSI busses are not
hotpluggable. Damage may happen and uncontroled voltage bursts during
power off/on may lock your system !!!
Coming so far, one big problem remains: the (hard coded) buffersize
for the sg devices in the Linux kernel (default 32k) may be to small
for DOS applications and, if your distributor yet didn't it, you may
need to recompile your kernel with a bigger buffer. The buffer size is
defined in linux/include/scsi/sg.h and to be on the secure side you
may define
#define SG_BIG_BUFF (128*1024-512) /* 128 Kb buffer size */
though, CD writers are reported to work with 64Kb and the `Iomega
guest' driver happily works with the default size of 32k.
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2.1.9. COM ports and mice
We have simplified the configuration for mice and serial ports and
check for depencies between them. If all strings in the below example
are empty, then no mouse and/or COM port is available. Note. that you
need no mouse.com driver installed in your DOS environment, DOSEMU has
the mousedriver builtin. The mouse settings below only apply to DOSEMU
in the Linux console; in X and terminals the mouse is detected
automatically. The below example is such a setup
$_com1 = "" # e.g. "/dev/mouse" or "/dev/ttyS0"
$_com2 = "/dev/modem" # e.g. "/dev/modem" or "/dev/ttyS1"
$_mouse = "microsoft" # one of: microsoft, mousesystems, logitech,
# mmseries, mouseman, hitachi, busmouse, ps2
$_mouse_dev = "/dev/mouse" # one of: com1, com2 or /dev/mouse
$_mouse_flags = "" # list of none or one or more of:
# "emulate3buttons cleardtr"
$_mouse_baud = (0) # baudrate, 0 == don't set
The above example lets you have your modem on COM2, COM1 is spare (as
you may have your mouse under native DOS there and don't want to
change the configuration of your modem software between boots of
native DOS and Linux)
However, you may use your favorite DOS mouse driver and directly let
it drive COM1 by changing the below variables (rest of variables
unchanged)
$_com1 = "/dev/mouse"
$_mouse_dev = "com1"
And finaly, when you have a PS/2 or USB mouse on your machine you use
the built-in mouse driver (not your mouse.com) to get it work: ( again
leaving the rest of variables unchanged)
$_mouse = "ps2"
$_mouse_dev = "/dev/mouse"
When using a PS/2 or USB mouse or when having more than 2 serial ports
you may of course assign _any_ free serialdevice to COM1, COM2. The
order doesn't matter:
$_com1 = "/dev/ttyS2"
$_com2 = "/dev/ttyS0"
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2.1.10. Printers
Printer is emulated by piping printer data to your normal Linux
printer. The belows tells DOSEMU which printers to use. The `timeout'
tells DOSEMU how long to wait after the last output to LPTx before
considering the print job as `done' and to close it.
# Print commands to use for LPT1, LPT2 and LPT3.
# Default: "lpr -l, lpr -l -P lpt2, lpr -l P lpt3"
# Which means: use the default print queue for LPT1, "lpt2" queue for LPT2,
# "lpt3" queue for LPT3. "-l" means raw printing mode (no preprocessing).
$_lpt1 = "lpr -l"
$_lpt2 = "lpr -l -P lpt2"
$_lpt3 = "lpr -l -P lpt3"
$_printer_timeout = (20)# idle time in seconds before spooling out
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2.1.11. Sound
The following settings will tell DOSEMU to emulate an SB16 sound card
using your Linux sound drivers. For more information see
sound-usage.txt.
$_sound = (on) # sound support on/off
$_sb_base = (0x220) # base IO-address (HEX)
$_sb_irq = (5) # IRQ
$_sb_dma = (1) # Low 8-bit DMA channel
$_sb_hdma = (5) # High 16-bit DMA channel
$_sb_dsp = "/dev/dsp" # Path to the sound device
$_sb_mixer = "" # path to the mixer control
$_mpu_base = (0x330) # base address for the MPU-401 chip (HEX)
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2.1.12. Joystick
Here are the settings for Joystick emulation.
$_joy_device = "/dev/js0 /dev/js1"
# 1st and 2nd joystick device
# e.g. "/dev/js0" or "/dev/js0 /dev/js1"
# (or "" if you don't want joystick support)
#
$_joy_dos_min = (1) # range for joystick axis readings, must be > 0
$_joy_dos_max = (150) # avoid setting this to > 250
$_joy_granularity = (1) # the higher, the less sensitive -
# useful if you have a wobbly joystick
#
$_joy_latency = (1) # delay between nonblocking linux joystick reads
# increases performance if >0 and processor>=Pent
ium
# recommended: 1-50ms or 0 if unsure
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2.1.13. Networking under DOSEMU
Turn the following option `on' if you require IPX/SPX emulation, there
is no need to load IPX.COM within the DOS session. ( the option does
not emulate LSL.COM, IPXODI.COM, etc. ) And NOTE: You must have IPX
protocol configured into the kernel.
$_ipxsupport = (on)
Enable Novell 8137->raw 802.3 translation hack in new packet driver.
$_novell_hack = (on)
If you make use of TUN/TAP or the dosnet device driver, then you can
select it via
$_vnet = "tap"
or
$_vnet = "dosnet"
But if you just need 'single' packet driver support that talks to, for
instance, your ethernet card eth0 then you need to set
$_netdev = "eth0"
Note that dosnet and eth0 require raw packet access, and hence
(suid)-root. If $_vnet = "dosnet", then $_netdev will default to
"dsn0". If you would like to use persistent TUN/TAP devices then you
need to specifify the TAP device in $_netdev. For more on this look at
chapter 15 (Networking using DOSEMU).
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2.1.14. Settings for enabling direct hardware access
The following settings (together with the direct console video
settings below make it possible for DOSEMU to access your real
(non-emulated) computer hardware directly. Because Linux does not
permit this for ordinary users, DOSEMU needs to be run as root, via
sudo or suid-root to be able to use these settings. They can NOT be
overwritten by the user configuration file ~/.dosemurc. You must also
run dosemu with the "-s" switch. This activates sudo when appropriate;
without it, even root will not get direct hardware access.
Here you tell DOSEMU what to do when DOS wants let play the speaker:
$_speaker = "" # or "native" or "emulated"
And with the below may gain control over real ports on you machine.
But:
WARNING: GIVING ACCESS TO PORTS IS BOTH A SECURITY CONCERN AND SOME
PORTS ARE DANGEROUS TO USE. PLEASE SKIP THIS SECTION, AND DON'T FIDDLE
WITH THIS SECTION UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
$_ports = "" # list of portnumbers such as "0x1ce 0x1cf 0x238"
# or "0x1ce range 0x280,0x29f 310"
# or "range 0x1a0,(0x1a0+15)"
If you have hardware, that is not supported under Linux but you have a
DOS driver for, it may be necessary to enable IRQ passing to DOS. Note
that IRQ passing does not work on x86-64.
$_irqpassing = "" # list of IRQ number (2-15) to pass to DOS such as
# "3 8 10"
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2.1.15. Video settings ( console only )
!!WARNING!!: IF YOU ENABLE GRAPHICS ON AN INCOMPATIBLE ADAPTOR, YOU
COULD GET A BLANK SCREEN OR MESSY SCREEN EVEN AFTER EXITING DOSEMU.
Read doc/README-tech.txt (Recovering the console after a crash).
Start with only text video using the following setup
$_video = "vga" # one of: plainvga, vga, ega, mda, mga, cga
$_console = (0) # use 'console' video
$_graphics = (0) # use the cards BIOS to set graphics
$_vbios_seg = (0xc000) # set the address of your VBIOS (e.g. 0xe000)
$_vbios_size = (0x10000)# set the size of your BIOS (e.g. 0x8000)
$_vmemsize = (0) # amount of video RAM to save/restore
$_chipset = ""
$_dualmon = (0) # if you have one vga _plus_ one hgc (2 monitors)
After you get it `somehow' working and you have one of the DOSEMU
supported graphic cards you may switch to graphics mode changing the
below
$_graphics = (1) # use the cards BIOS to set graphics
If you have a 100% compatible standard VGA card that may work,
however, you get better results, if your card has one of the DOSEMU
supported video chips and you tell DOSEMU to use it such as
$_chipset = "s3" # one of: plainvga, trident, et4000, diamond, s3,
# avance, cirrus, matrox, wdvga, paradise, ati, s
is,
# svgalib, vesa
Note, `s3' is only an example, you must set the correct video chip
else it most like will crash your screen.
The 'svgalib' setting uses svgalib 1.9.21 or greater for determining
the correct video chip.
The 'vmemsize' setting's default of 0 causes DOSEMU to try to
autodetect the amount of video memory on the graphics card. This
amount is saved and restored when you switch away from and back to the
virtual console DOSEMU runs in using the Ctrl-Alt-Fn key combination.
Since saving video memory can be a very slow operation you may want to
restrict 'vmemsize' to a value that was more common when DOS was still
mainstream. For instance 1024 covers it if you want to be able to save
and restore modes up to 1024x768x256.
NOTE: `video setting' can not be overwritten by ~/.dosemurc.
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2.1.16. Time settings
By Paul Crawford. This is a short guide to the time modes supported in
DOSEMU; you can get a more detailed description of how and why they
operate at http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~psc/dosemu_time_advanced.html.
There are three modes currently supported using the $_timemode
variable:
$_timemode = "bios"
$_timemode = "pit"
$_timemode = "linux"
Most users will only ever have a need for either BIOS or LINUX mode,
and the decision comes down to the two basic characteristics:
* In BIOS mode, the DOSEMU session begins with the current (local)
date & time, and once running it behaves fully like an emulated
PC. You can set the date & time using the normal DOS methods as
you would expect. However, time keeping accuracy in the long term
under DOS was never very good, and under DOSEMU it is typically
poorer.
* In LINUX mode, the emulated PC always reports the current host
time, and so you no longer have the option to set the DOS time
(the date can be set, which is odd, as this is kept in DOS and not
in the emulator). In this mode you get the long term accuracy of
the host, so if you are running NTP or similar, you always get
accurate time.
The PIT mode is an odd compromise, it provides BIOS-like time
(settable, decoupled from host time), but with slightly higher
accuracy. In summary, if you need accurate time, choose LINUX mode,
otherwise if you need time setting capabilities or close 'real' PC
emulation, choose BIOS mode.
A reasonable question for some applications is "how do I get accurate
UTC time?", of course, the more general question is about running the
emulated DOS session in a different timezone and/or with differing
"daylight saving" options to the host computer. This is quite simple
in fact, just start DOSEMU with the environment variable TZ set to the
required zone, and don't forget to have the corresponding command in
the DOS autoexec.bat file (otherwise Microsoft products all assume -8
hours PST!). The DOSEMU emulation of file system access is also based
on the local timezone it is running in, so you will get consistent
file time stamps compared to the emulated time. So in the UTC case,
you would start DOSEMU in a shell with TZ=GMT0, and have a line in
autoexec.bat with "set TZ=GMT0" before any of your programs are run.
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3. Security
This part of the document by Hans Lermen, <lermen@fgan.de> on Apr 6,
1997.
These are the hints we give you, when running dosemu on a machine that
is (even temporary) connected to the internet or other machines, or
that otherwise allows 'foreign' people login to your machine.
* Don't set the "s" bit, as DOSEMU can run in lowfeature mode
without the "s" bit set. If you want fullfeatures for some of your
users, it is recommended to use "sudo". Alternatively you can just
use the keyword `nosuidroot' in /etc/dosemu.users to forbid some
(or all) users execution of a suid root running dosemu (they may
use a non-suid root copy of the binary though). DOSEMU now drops
its root privileges before booting; however there may still be
security problems in the initialization code, and by making DOSEMU
suid-root you can give users direct access to resources they don't
normally have access too, such as selected I/O ports, hardware
IRQs and hardware RAM. For any direct hardware access you must
always use the "-s" switch.
If DOSEMU is invoked via "sudo" then it will automatically switch
to the user who invoked "sudo". An example /etc/sudoers entry is
this:
joeuser hostname=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/dosemu.bin
If you use PASSWD instead of NOPASSWD then users need to type
their own passwords when sudo asks for it. The "dosemu" script can
be invoked using the "-s" option to automatically use sudo.
* Use proper file permissions to restrict access to a suid root
DOSEMU binary in addition to /etc/dosemu.users `nosuidroot'. (
double security is better ).
* NEVER let foreign users execute dosemu under root login !!!
(Starting with dosemu-0.66.1.4 this isn't necessary any more, all
functionality should also be available when running as user)
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4. Sound
The SB code is currently in a state of flux. Some changes to the code
have been made which mean that I can separate the DSP handling from
the rest of the SB code, making the main case statements simpler. In
the meantime, Rutger Nijlunsing has provided a method for redirecting
access to the MPU-401 chip into the main OS.
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4.1. Using the MPU-401 "Emulation"
The Sound driver opens "/var/run/dosemu-midi" and writes the Raw MIDI
data to this. A daemon is provided which can be can be used to seletc
the instruments required for use on some soundcards. It is also
possible to get various instruments by redirecting
'/var/run/dosemu-midi' to the relevant part of the sound driver eg:
% ln -s /dev/midi /var/run/dosemu-midi
This will send all output straight to the default midi device and use
whatever instruments happen to be loaded.
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4.2. The MIDI daemon
make midid
This compiles and installs the midi daemon. The daemon currently has
support for the 'ultra' driver and partial support for the 'OSS'
driver (as supplied with the kernel) and for no midi system. Support
for the 'ultra' driver will be compiled in automatically if available
on your system.
Copy the executable './bin/midid' so that it is on your path, or
somewhere you can run it easily.
Before you run DOSEMU for the first time, do the following:
mkdir -p ~/.dosemu/run # if it doesen't exist
rm -f ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi
mknod ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi p
Then you can use the midi daemon like this:
./midid < ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi &; dosemu
(Assuming that you put the midid executeable in the directory you run
DOSEMU from.)
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4.3. Disabling the Emulation at Runtime
You can disable the SB emulation by changing the 'sound' variable in
/etc/dosemu.conf to 'off'. There is currently no way to specify at
runtime which SB model DOSEMU should emulate; the best you can do is
set the T value of the BLASTER environment variable (see
sound-usage.txt), but not all programs will take note of this.
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5. Using Lredir
This section of the document by Hans, <lermen@fgan.de>. Last updated
on October, 23 2002.
What is it? Well, its simply a small DOS program that tells the MFS
(Mach File System) code what 'network' drives to redirect. With this
you can 'mount' any Linux directory as a virtual drive into DOS. In
addition to this, Linux as well as multiple dosemu sessions may
simultaneously access the same drives, what you can't when using
partition access.
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5.1. how do you use it?
Mount your dos hard disk partition as a Linux subdirectory. For
example, you could create a directory in Linux such as /dos (mkdir -m
755 /dos) and add a line like
/dev/hda1 /dos msdos umask=022
to your /etc/fstab. (In this example, the hard disk is mounted read-
only. You may want to mount it read/write by replacing "022" with
"000" and using the -m 777 option with mkdir). Now mount /dos. Now you
can add a line like
lredir d: linux\fs/dos
to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file in your hdimage (but see the comments below).
On a multi-user system you may want to use
lredir d: linux\fs\${home}
where "home" is the name of an environmental variable that contains
the location of the dos directory (/dos in this example)
You may even redirect to a NFS mounted volume on a remote machine with
a /etc/fstab entry like this
otherhost: /dos nfs nolock
Note that the nolock> option might be needed for 2.2.x kernels,
because apparently the locks do not propagate fast enough and DOSEMU's
(MFS code) share emulation will fail (seeing a lock on its own files).
In addition, you may want to have your native DOS partion as C: under
dosemu. To reach this aim you also can use Lredir to turn off the
'virtual' hdimage and switch on the real drive C: such as this:
Assuming you have a c:\dosemu directory on both drives (the virtual
and the real one) and have mounted your DOS partition as /dosc, you
then should have the following files on the virtual drive:
autoexec.bat:
lredir z: linux\fs\dosc
copy c:\dosemu\auto2.bat z:\dosemu\auto2.bat
lredir del z:
c:\dosemu\auto2.bat
dosemu\auto2.bat:
lredir c: linux\fs\dosc
rem further autoexec stuff
To make the reason clear why the batch file (not necessaryly
autoexec.bat) must be identical:
Command.com, which interpretes the batchfile keeps a position pointer
(byte offset) to find the next line within this file. It opens/closes
the batchfile for every new batchline it reads from it. If the
batchfile in which the 'lredir c: ...' happens is on c:, then
command.com suddenly reads the next line from the batchfile of that
newly 'redired' drive. ... you see what is meant?
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5.2. Other alternatives using Lredir
To have a redirected drive available at time of config.sys you may
either use emufs.sys such as
device=c:\emufs.sys /dosc
or make use of the install instruction of config.sys (but not both)
such as
install=c:\lredir.exe c: linux\fs\dosc
The later has the advantage, that you are on your native C: from the
beginning, but, as with autoexec.bat, both config.sys must be
identical.
For information on using 'lredired' drives as a 'user' (ie having the
right permissions), please look at the section on Running dosemu as a
normal user.
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6. Running dosemu as a normal user
This section of the document by Hans, <lermen@fgan.de>. Last updated
on Jan 21, 2003.
1. In the default setup, DOSEMU does not have root privileges. This
means it will not have direct access to ports, external DOSish
hardware and won't use the console other than in normal terminal
mode, but is fully capable to do anything else. See the previous
section on how to enable privileged operation if you really need
to.
2. If a user needs access to privileged resources other than console
graphics, then you may need to explicitly allow the user to do so
by editing the file /etc/dosemu.users (or
/etc/dosemu/dosemu.users). The format is:
loginname [ c_strict ] [ classes ...] [ other ]
For example, to allow joeuser full access you can use
joeuser c_all
3. The msdos partitions, that you want to be accessable through
Section 5 should be mounted with proper permissions. I recommend
doing this via 'group's, not via user ownership. Given you have a
group 'dosemu' for this and want to give the user 'lermen' access,
then the following should be
+ in /etc/passwd:
lermen:x:500:100:Hans Lermen:/home/lermen:/bin/bash
^^^-- note: this is NOT the group id of 'dosemu'
+ in /etc/group:
users:x:100:
dosemu:x:200:dosemu,lermen
^^^
+ in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda1 /dosc msdos defaults,gid=200,umask=002 0 0
^^^
Note: the changes to /etc/passwd and /etc/group only take place
the next time you login, so don't forget to re-login.
The fstab entry will mount /dosc such that is has the proper
permissions
( drwxrwxr-x 22 root dosemu 16384 Jan 1 1970 /dosc )
You can do the same with an explicit mount command:
mount -t msdos -o gid=200,umask=002 /dev/hda1 /dosc
Of course normal lredir'ed unix directories should have the same
permissions.
4. Make sure you have read/write permissions of the devices you
configured (in /etc/dosemu.conf) for serial and mouse.
Starting with dosemu-0.66.1.4 there should be no reason against
running dosemu as a normal user. The privilege stuff has been
extensively reworked, and there was no program that I tested under
root, that didn't also run as user. Normally dosemu will permanently
run as user and only temporarily use root privilege when needed
(during initialization) and then drop its root privileges permanently.
In case of non-suid root (as of dosemu-0.97.10), it will run in
lowfeature mode without any privileges.
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7. Using CDROMS
7.1. The built-in driver
This documents the cdrom extension rucker@astro.uni-bonn.de has
written for Dosemu.
An easy way to access files on a CDROM is to mount it in Linux and use
Lredir to refer to it. However, any low-level access, often used by
games is impossible that way, unless you use the C option. For that
you need to load some drivers in DOS. CDROM image files (ISOs) can be
used in a similar fashion.
The driver consists of a server on the Linux side
(src/dosext/drivers/cdrom.c, accessed via int 0xe6 handle 0x40) and a
device driver (src/commands/cdrom.S) on the DOS side.
Please send any suggestions and bug reports to
<rucker@astro.uni-bonn.de>
To install it:
* Create a (symbolic) link /dev/cdrom to the device file of your
drive or use the cdrom statement in dosemu.conf to define it.
* Make sure that you have read/write access to the device file of
your drive, otherwise you won't be able to use the cdrom under
Dosemu directly because of security reasons.
* Load cdrom.sys within your config.sys file with e.g.:
devicehigh=d:\dosemu\cdrom.sys
* Mount the CD-ROM in Linux (some distributions do this
automatically), and use
lredir e: linux\fs/media/cdrom c
to access the CD-ROM as drive E:. The "C" option specifies that
the low-level access provided via cdrom.sys is used. Or ... start
Microsoft cdrom extension as follows:
mscdex /d:mscd0001 /l:driveletter
or
shsucdex /d:mscd0001 /l:driveletter
To change the cd while Dosemu is running, use the DOS program
'eject.com'. If is not possible to change the disk, when the drive has
been opened by another process (e.g. mounted), then you need to
unmount it first!
Lredir has the advantage of supporting long file names, and not using
any DOS memory, whereas MS/SHSUCDX are more low-level and perhaps more
compatible. You would need to use a DOS TSR driver such as DOSLFN to
use long file names with SHSUCDX.
Remarks by zimmerma@rz.fht-esslingen.de:
This driver has been successfully tested with Linux' SCSI CDROMS by
the author, with the Mitsumi driver mcd.c and with the
Aztech/Orchid/Okano/Wearnes- CDROM driver aztcd.c by me. With the
latter CDROM-drives changing the CD-ROM is not recognized correctly by
the drive under all circumstances and is therefore disabled. So
eject.com will not work. For other CD-ROM drives you may enable this
feature by setting the variable 'eject_allowed = 1' in file
dosemu/drivers/cdrom.c (you'll find it near the top of the file). With
the mcd.c and aztcd.c Linux drivers this may cause your system to hang
for some 30 seconds (or even indefinitely), so don't change the
default value 'eject_allowed = 0'.
Support for up to 4 drives:
If you have more then one cdrom, you can use the cdrom statement in
dosemu.conf like this:
$_cdrom = "/dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom2 image.iso"
and have multiple instancies of the DOS driver:
device=cdrom.sys
device=cdrom.sys 2
device=cdrom.sys 3
The one and only parameter to the device driver is a digit between 1
and 4, (if its missing then 1 is assumed) for the DOS devices
MSCD0001, MSCD0002 ... MSCD0004 respectively. You then also need to
use lredir or tell MSCDEX about these drivers such as
lredir e: linux\fs/media/cdrom c
lredir f: linux\fs/media/cdrom2 c 2
lredir g: linux\fs/media/cdrom3 c 3
where you need to loop-mount the image file, or
mscdex /d:mscd0001 /d:mscd0002 /l:driveletter
In this case the /l: argument defines the driveletter of the first
/d:, the others will get assigned successive driveletters.
History:
Release with dosemu.0.60.0 Karsten Rucker (rucker@astro.uni-bonn.de)
April 1995
Additional remarks for mcd.c and aztcd.c Werner Zimmermann
(zimmerma@rz.fht-esslingen.de) May 30, 1995
Release with dosemu-0.99.5 Manuel Villegas Marin (manolo@espanet.com)
Support for up to 4 drives December 4, 1998
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8. Using X
This chapter provides some hints and tips for using DOSEMU in X.
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8.1. Basic information
If you start dosemu in X it brings up its own window, in which you can
also execute graphical programs such as games. To force text-only
execution of DOSEMU in an xterm or other terminal (konsole,
gnome-terminal, and so on), you need to run dosemu -t.
Use dosemu -w to start DOSEMU in fullscreen mode. When running DOSEMU,
you can flip between fullscreen and windowed mode by pressing
<Ctrl><Alt><F>. The graphics window is resizeable.
Some DOS applications want precise mouse control that is only possible
if the mouse cursor is trapped in the DOSEMU window. To enable this
you need to grab the mouse by pressing <Ctrl><Alt><Home>. Similarly,
you can grab the keyboard by pressing <Ctrl><Alt><K>, or
<Ctrl><Alt><Shift><K> if your window manager already grabs
<Ctrl><Alt><K>. After you grab the keyboard all key combinations
(including <Alt><Tab> and so on) are passed to DOSEMU. In fullscreen
mode the mouse and keyboard are both automatically grabbed.
Use <Ctrl><Alt><Pause> to pause and unpause the DOSEMU session, which
is useful if you want it to sit silently in the background when it is
eating too much CPU time. Press <Ctrl><Alt><PgDn> or click the close
button of the window to exit DOSEMU.
DOSEMU uses bitmapped internal fonts by default, so it can accurately
simulate a real VGA card text mode. It is also possible to use X
fonts. The advantages of these is that they may be easier on the eyes,
and are faster, in particular if you use DOSEMU remotely. Any native
DOS font setting utilities do not work, however. To set an X font use
the provided xmode.com utility, using
xmode -font vga
at the DOS prompt or
$_X_font = "vga"
in dosemu.conf. The provided fonts are vga, vga8x19, vga11x19,
vga10x24, vga12x30, vga-cp866, and vga10x20-cp866.
If the mouse is not grabbed, then you can copy and paste text if the
DOSEMU window is in text mode. This uses the standard X mechanism:
select by dragging the left mouse button, and paste by pressing the
middle mouse button.
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8.2. More detailed information, hints and tips
What you might take care of:
* If backspace and delete do not work, you can try 'xmodmap -e
"keycode 22 = 0xff08"' to get use of your backspace key, and
* 'xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = 0xffff"' to get use of your delete key.
* Make sure DOSEMU has X support compiled in. The configure script
complains loudly if it does not find X development libraries.
* There are some X-related configuration options for dosemu.conf.
See the file itself for details.
* Keyboard support of course depends on your X keyboard mappings
(xmodmap). If certain keys don't work (like Pause, Backspace,...),
it *might* be because you haven't defined them in your xmodmap, or
defined to something other than DOSEMU expects.
* using the provided icon (dosemu.xpm):
+ you need the xpm (pixmaps) package. If you're not sure, look
for a file like /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.*
+ you also need a window manager which supports pixmaps. Fvwm
is fine, but I can't tell you about others. Twm probaby won't
do.
+ copy dosemu.xpm to where you usually keep your pixmap (not
bitmap!) files (perhaps /usr/share/pixmaps)
+ tell your window manager to use it. For fvwm, add the
following line to your fvwmrc file:
Icon "xdosemu" dosemu.xpm
This assumes you have defined a PixmapPath. Otherwise,
specify the entire pathname.
+ note that if you set a different icon name than "xdosemu" in
your dosemu.conf, you will also have to change the fvwmrc
entry.
+ restart the window manager. There's usually an option in the
root menu to do so.
Now you should see the icon whenever you iconify xdosemu.
Note that the xdosemu program itself does not include the icon -
that's why you have to tell the window manager. I chose to do it
this way to avoid xdosemu requiring the Xpm library.
* If anything else does not work as expected, don't panic :-)
Remember the thing is still under construction. However, if you
think it's a real bug, please tell me.
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8.3. The VGA Emulator
In X, a VGA card is emulated. The same happens if you use the SDL
library using dosemu -S. This emulation (vgaemu) enables X to run
graphics modes.
Some features:
* Video memory. 1 Mb is allocated. It is mapped with mmap() in the
VGA memory region of DOSEMU (0xa00000-0xbfffff) to support bank
switching. This is very i386-Linux specific, don't be surprised if
it doesn't work under NetBSD or another Linux flavour
(Alpha/Sparc/MIPS/etc).
* The DAC (Digital to Analog Converter). The DAC is completely
emulated, except for the pelmask. This is not difficult to
implement, but it is terribly slow because a change in the pelmask
requires a complete redraw of the screen. Fortunately, the pelmask
changes aren't used often so nobody will notice ;-)
* The attribute controller is emulated.
* The emulator emulates a basic Trident TVGA8900C graphics card. All
standard VGA modes are emulated, most VGA hardware features
(mode-X, 320x240 and so on), some Trident extensions, and on top
of that many high-resolution VESA 2.0 modes, that were not present
in the original Trident card. Some (very few) programs, such as
Fast Tracker, play intimately with the VGA hardware and may not
work. As vgaemu improves these problems should disappear.
* Nearly full VESA 2.0 support.
* A VESA compatible video BIOS is mapped at 0xc00000. It is small
because it only contains some glue code and the BIOS fonts (8x8,
8x14, 8x16).
* support for hi- and true-color modes (using Trident SVGA mode
numbers and bank switching)
* Support for mode-X type graphics modes (non-chain4 modes as used
by e.g. DOOM)
* gamma correction for graphics modes
* video memory size is configurable via dosemu.conf
* initial graphics window size is configurable
* The current hi- (16bpp) and true (24/32bpp) color support does not
allow resizing of the graphics window and gamma correction is
ignored.
As the typical graphics mode with 320x200x8 will be used often with
large scalings and modern graphics boards are pretty fast, Steffen
Winterfeldt added something to eat up your CPU time: you can turn on
the bilinear interpolation. It greatly improves the display quality
(but is rather slow as I haven't had time yet to implement an
optimized version - it's plain C for now). If the bilinear filter is
too slow, you might instead try the linear filter which interpolates
only horizontally.
Note that (bi)linear filtering is not available on all VGA/X display
combinations. The standard drawing routines are used instead in such
cases.
If a VGA mode is not supported on your current X display, the graphics
screen will just remain black. Note that this does not mean that
DOSEMU has crashed.
The only unsupported VBE function is VGA state save/restore. But this
functionality is rarely used and its lack should not cause too much
problems.
VBE allows you to use the horizontal and vertical scrolling function
even in text modes. This feature is not implemented.
If you think it causes problems, the linear frame buffer (LFB) can be
turned of via dosemu.conf as well as the protected mode interface.
Note, however, that LFB modes are faster than banked modes, even in
DOSEMU.
The default VBE mode list defines a lot of medium resolution modes
suitable for games (like Duke3D). You can still create your own modes
via dosemu.conf. Note that you cannot define the same mode twice; the
second (and all subsequent) definitions will be ignored.
Modes that are defined but cannot be supported due to lack of video
memory or because they cannot be displayed on your X display, are
marked as unsupported in the VBE mode list (but are still in it).
The current interface between VGAEmu and X will try to update all
invalid video pages at a time. This may, particularly in hi-res
VBE/SVGA modes, considerably disturb DOSEMU's signal handling. That
cannot be helped for the moment, but will be addressed soon (by
running an extra update thread).
If you really think that this is the cause of your problem, you might
try to play with veut.max_max_len in env/video/render.c. This variable
limits the amount of video memory that is updated during one timer
interrupt. This way you can dramatically reduce the load of screen
updates, but at the same rate reduce your display quality.
Gamma correction works in both 4 and 8 bit modes. It must be specified
as a float value, e.g. $_X_gamma=(1.0). Higher values give brighter
graphics, lower make them darker. Reasonable values are within a range
of 0.5 ... 2.0.
You can specify the video memory size that the VGA emulator should use
in dosemu.conf. The value will be rounded up to the nearest 256 kbyte
boundary. You should stick to typical values like 1024, 2048 or 4096
as not to confuse DOS applications. Note that whatever value you give,
4 bit modes are only supported up to a size of 800x600.
You can influence the initial size of the graphics window in various
ways. Normally it will have the same size (in pixel) as the VGA
graphics mode, except for mode 0x13 (320x200, 256 colors), which will
be scaled by the value of mode13fact (defaults to 2). Alternatively,
you can directly specify a window size in dosemu.conf via $_X_winsize.
You can still resize the window later.
The config option $_X_fixed_aspect allows you to fix the aspect ratio
of the graphics window while resizing it. Alternatively, $_X_aspect_43
ties the aspect ratio to a value of 4:3. The idea behind this is that,
whatever the actual resolution of a graphics mode is in DOS, it is
displayed on a 4:3 monitor. This way you won't run into problems with
modes such as 640x200 (or even 320x200) which would look somewhat
distorted otherwise.
For planar modes (for instance, most 16 colour modes, but also certain
256-colour modes: mode-X), vgaemu has to switch to partial cpu
emulation. This can be slow, but expect it to improve over time.
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9. Running Windows under DOSEMU
DOSEMU can run any 16bit Windows up to 3.1, and has limited support
for Windows 3.11. You should be able to install and run these versions
of Windows without any extra work. There are still a few caveats
however, and if you have some problems, read on.
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9.1. Mouse in Windows under DOSEMU
The mouse is known to have sensitivity issues when you run Windows
under DOSEMU. For Windows 3.0 and earlier there is no workaround
currently. That problem will be fixed in the future DOSEMU releases.
For Windows 3.1 and 3.11 you can install an alternative mouse driver.
Get the OS2WIN31.ZIP distribution from somehere. One place that
distributes it is http://www.funet.fi/pub/os2/32bit/win_os2 This
archive contains the file mouse.drv. Replace the mouse.drv of your
WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory with that file and do the following
adjustments in your win.ini file:
[windows]
MouseThreshold1=0
MouseThreshold2=0
MouseSpeed=0
Note however, that with this driver you won't be able to run Windows
in real DOS any more, because this mouse driver only works under
DOSEMU and OS/2.
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9.2. Windows 3.x in SVGA modes
If you want to run Windows in SVGA mode, you can either use the
Trident drivers, or the patched SVGA drivers of Windows 3.11.
The Trident drivers for Windows are in the files tvgaw31a.zip and/or
tvgaw31b.zip. Search www.winsite.com to get them. Unpack the archive.
In Windows setup, install the Trident "800x600 256 color for 512K
boards" driver.
Windows 3.11 comes with SVGA drivers. You can also download them:
search www.winsite.com for svga.exe and install the drivers. Then go
to http://www.japheth.de/dwnload1.html and get the SVGAPatch tool.
This tool causes the above drivers to work with most of the video
cards in a real DOS environment, and makes them DOSEMU-compatible too.
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9.3. VxD support
By the time of writing this, DOSEMU does not have support for Windows
ring-0 device drivers (.vxd, .386). Fortunately, most of Windows 3.1
drivers are ring-3 ones (.drv), so you can easily install the Sound
Blaster drivers, for instance. This is not the case with Windows 3.11.
Its network drivers are ring-0 ones, so the native Winsock does not
work. In order to get networking operational, you need to get the
Trumpet Winsock package. Refer to chapter "Using Windows and Winsock"
for more info on this.
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9.4. DOS shell in Windows
There is probably little use of a DOS shell under Windows under
DOSEMU... But for those who need it, here are some basic hints. The
DOS shell is supported by DOSEMU only if Windows is running in
Standard mode. The Enhanced mode DOS shell is currently unsupported.
Note however, that unlike in a real DOS environment, under DOSEMU the
DOS shell of the Windows in Standard mode allows you to run protected
mode applications (in the real DOS environment only the DOS shell of
the Enhanced mode allows this).
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10. The DOSEMU mouse
This section written by Eric Biederman <eric@dosemu.org>
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10.1. Setting up the emulated mouse in DOSEMU
For most dos applications you should be able to use the internal mouse
with very little setup, and very little trouble.
Under X, or in terminal mode, you don't need to do anything, unless
you want to use the middle button then you need to add to
autoexec.bat:
emumouse 3
On the console, in text mode, without root, the GPM library can be
used, and no extra setup is necessary. Otherwise, especially with
console graphics (sudo/suid/root, the -s switch, and $_graphics=(1)),
it takes just a tad bit more work:
in dosemu.conf:
$_mouse = "mousesystems"
$_mouse_dev = "/dev/gpmdata"
And in autoexec.bat:
emumouse 3
This sets you up to use the gpm mouse repeater if you don't use the
repeater, you need to set $_mouse and $_mouse_dev to different values.
The GPM repeater might be configured to use a different protocol than
the default. If you are having problems, check the 'repeat_type'
setting in your gpm.conf. These are the mappings from the GPM
repeat_type to the DOSEMU $_mouse for common settings:
GPM setting DOSEMU setting
-------------------------------
msc (default) mousesystems
ms3 microsoft
raw select type of your real mouse
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10.2. Problems
In X there are 2 ways applications can get into trouble.
The most common way is if they don't trust the mouse driver to keep
track of where the mouse is on the screen, and insist on doing it
themselves. win31 & geoworks are too applications in this category.
They read mouse movement from the mouse driver in turns of mickeys
i.e. they read the raw movement data.
To support this mouse driver then tracks where you were and where you
move to, in terms of x,y screen coordinates. Then works the standard
formulas backwards that calculate screen coordinates from mickeys to
generate mickeys from screen coordinates. And it feeds these mickeys
to the application. As long as the application and dosemu agree on the
same formulas for converting mickeys to screen coordinates all is
good.
The only real problem with this is sometimes X mouse and the
application mouse get out of sync. Especially if you take your mouse
cursor out of the dosemu window, and bring it back in again.
To compensate for getting out of sync what we do is whenever we
reenter the Xdos window is send a massive stream of mickeys heading
for the upper left corner of the screen. This should be enough to kick
us any an good mouse drivers screen limits. Then once we know where we
are we simulate movement for 0,0.
In practice this isn't quite perfect but it does work reasonably well.
The tricky part then is to get the application and dosemu to agree on
the algorithm. The algorithm we aim at is one mickey one pixel. Dosemu
does this by default under X but you can force it with.
emumouse x 8 y 8 a
To do this in various various applications generally falls under the
category of disable all mouse accelration.
for win31 you need
MouseThreshold1=0
MouseThreshold2=0
MouseSpeed=0
in the '[windows]' section of win.ini
The fool proof solution is to take total control of the mouse in X.
This is controlled by the $_X_mgrab_key in /etc/dosemu.conf
$_X_mgrab_key contains an X keysym of a key that when pressed with
both Ctrl & Alt held down will turn on the mouse grab, which restricts
the X mouse to the dosemu window, and gives dosemu complete control
over it. Ctrl-Alt-$_X_mgrab_key will then release the mouse grab
returning things to normal.
I like: $_X_mgrab_key="Scroll_Lock" (Ctrl-Alt-Scroll_Lock) but
$_X_mgrab_key="a" is a good conservative choice. (Ctrl-Alt-A) You can
use xev to see what keysyms a key generates.
Currently the way the X mouse code and the mouse grab are structured
the internal mouse driver cannot display the mouse when the mouse grab
is active. In particular without the grab active to display the mouse
cursor we just let X draw the mouse for us, (as normal). When the
mouse grab is active we restrict the mouse to our current window, and
continually reset it to the center of the current screeen (allowing us
to get relative amounts of movement). A side effect of this is that
the the position of the X cursor and the dos cursor _not_ the same. So
we need a different strategy to display the dos cursor.
The other way an application can get into trouble in X, and also on
the console for that matter is if it is partially broken. In
particular the mouse driver is allowed to return coordinates that have
little to no connection with the actual screen resolution. So an
application mouse ask the mouse driver it's maximums and then scale
the coordinates it gets into screen positions. The broken applications
don't ask what the maximum & minimum resolutions are and just assume
that they know what is going on.
To keep this problem from being too severe in mouse.c we have
attempted to match the default resolutions used by other mouse
drivers. However since this is up to the choice of an individual mouse
driver there is doubtless code out there developed with different
resolutions in mind.
If you get stuck with such a broken application we have developed a
work around, that is partially effective. The idea being that if the
application draws it's own mouse pointer it really doesn't matter
where the dos mouse driver thinks the mouse is things should work. So
with emumouse it is possible to set a minimum resolution to return to
an application. By setting this minimum resolution to as big or bigger
than the application expect to see it should work. The side effect of
setting a minimum resolution bigger than the application expects to
see in X is that there will be some edges to the of the screen where
the application draws the cursor at the edge of the window, and yet
you need to continue scrolling a ways before the cursor comes out
there. In general this will affect the right and bottom edges of the
screen.
To read the current minimum use:
emumouse i
The default is 640x200
To set the minimum resolution use:
emumouse Mx 640 My 200
If you application doesn't draw it's own mouse cursor a skew of this
kind can be nasty. And there is no real good fix. You can set the
mininum down as well as up and so it may be possible to match what the
app expects as an internal resolution. However there is only so much
we can do to get a borken application to run and that appears to be
the limit.
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11. Mouse Garrot
This section, and Mouse Garrot were written by Ed Sirett
<ed@cityscape.co.uk> on 30 Jan 1995.
Mouse Garrot is an extension to the Linux Dos Emulator that tries to
help the emulator give up CPU time to the rest of the Linux system.
It tries to detect the fact the the mouse is not doing anything and
thus to release up CPU time, as is often the case when a mouse-aware
program is standing idle, such programs are often executing a loop
which is continually checking the mouse buttons & position.
Mouse Garrot is built directly into dosemu if and only if you are
using the internal mouse driver of dosemu. All you have to do is make
sure that the HOGTHRESHOLD value in the config file is non-zero.
If you are loading a (DOS based) mouse driver when you boot then you
will also need to load MGARROT.COM It is essential that you load
MGARROT.COM after you load the mouse driver. MGARROT will tell you if
you are (a) running real DOS not dosemu, or (b) have requested a zero
value for the HOGTHRESHOLD in the config file. In either case MGARROT
fails to install and no memory will be lost. When MGARROT is installed
it costs about 0.4k. MGARROT may loaded `high' if UMBs are available.
Mouse Garrot will work with many (maybe most) mouse-aware programs
including Works, Dosshell and the Norton Commander. Unfortunately,
there are some programs which get the mouse driver to call the program
whenever the mouse moves or a button is pressed. Programs that work in
this way are immune to the efforts of Mouse Garrot.
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12. Running a DOS application directly from Unix shell
This part of the document was written by Hans <lermen@fgan.de>.
This chapter deals with starting DOS commands directly from Linux. You
can use this information to set up icons or menu items in X. Using the
keystroke, input and output redirection facilities you can use DOS
commands in shell scripts, cron jobs, web services, and so on.
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12.1. Using unix -e in autoexec.bat
The default autoexec.bat file has a statement unix -e at the end. This
command executes the DOS program or command that was specified on the
dosemu command line.
For example:
dosemu "/home/clarence/games/commander keen/keen1.exe"
will automatically:
* Lredir "/" if the specified program is not available from an
already-redirected drive,
* "cd" to the correct directory,
* execute the program automagically,
* and quit DOSEMU when finished, all without any typing in DOS.
Using "-E" at the command line causes DOSEMU to continue after the DOS
program finishes.
You can also specify a DOS command, such as "dir". A combination with
the -dumb command-line option is useful if you want to retrieve the
output of the DOS command, such as
dosemu -dumb dir > listing
In this case (using -dumb, but not -E) all the startup messages that
DOSEMU and DOS generate are suppressed and you only get the output of
"dir". The output file contains DOS end-of-line markers (CRLF).
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12.2. Using the keystroke facility.
Make use of the -input command-line option, such as
dosemu -input 'dir > C:\\garbage\rexitemu\r'
The '...' will be 'typed in' by DOSEMU exactly as if you had them
typed at the keyboard. The advantage of this technique is, that all
DOS applications will accept them, even interactive ones. A '\' is
interpreted as in C and leads in ESC-codes. Here is a list of the
current implemented ones:
\r Carriage return == <ENTER>
\n LF
\t tab
\b backspace
\f formfeed
\a bell
\v vertical tab
\^x <Ctrl>x, where X is one of the usual C,M,L,[ ...
(e.g.: \^[ == <Ctrl>[ == ESC )
\Ax <Alt>x, hence \Ad means <Alt>d
\Fn; Function key Fn. Note that the trailing ';' is needed.
(e.g.: \F10; == F10 )
\Pn; Set the virtual typematic rate, thats the speed for
autotyping in. It is given in unix timer ticks to wait
between two strokes. A value of 7 for example leads to
a rate of 100/7=14 cps.
\pn; Before typing the next stroke wait n unix ticks.
This is useful, when the DOS-application flushes the
keyboard buffer on startup. Your strokes would be discarded,
if you don't wait.
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12.3. Using an input file
* Make a file "FILE" containing all keystrokes you need to boot
DOSEMU and to start your dos-application, ... and don't forget to
have CR (literal ^M) for 'ENTER'. FILE may look like this (as on
my machine):
2^Mdir > C:\garbage^Mexitemu^M
which could choose point 2 of the boot menu, execute 'dir' with
output to 'garbage', and terminate DOSEMU, where the ^M stands for
CR.
* and execute DOSEMU like this:
dosemu -dumb < FILE
In bash you can also use
echo -e 'dir \gt; c:\\garbage\rexitemu\r' | dosemu -dumb
or, when your dos-app does only normal printout (text), then you may
even do this
echo -e 'dir\rexitemu\r' | dosemu -dumb > FILE.out
FILE.out then contains the output from the DOS application, but
(unlike the unix -e technique, merged with all startup messages.
You may elaborate this technique by writing a script, which gets the
dos-command to execute from the commandline and generate 'FILE' for
you.
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12.4. Running DOSEMU within a cron job
When you try to use one of the above to start DOSEMU out of a crontab,
then you have to asure, that the process has a proper environment set
up ( especially the TERM and/or TERMCAP variable ).
Normally cron would setup TERM=dumb, this is fine because DOSEMU
recognizes it and internally sets it's own TERMCAP entry and TERM to
`dosemu-none'. You may also configure your video to
dosemu ... -dumb
or have a TERM=none to force the same setting. In all other crontab
run cases you may get nasty error messages either from DOSEMU or from
Slang.
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13. Commands & Utilities
These are some utitlies to assist you in using Dosemu.
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13.1. Programs
bootoff.com
switch off the bootfile to access disk see examples/config.dist
at bootdisk option
booton.com
switch on the bootfile to access bootfile see
examples/config.dist at bootdisk option
uchdir.com
change the Unix directory for Dosemu (use chdir(2))
dosdbg.com
change the debug setting from within Dosemu
+ dosdbg -- show current state
+ dosdbg <string>
+ dosdbg help -- show usage information
eject.com
eject CD-ROM from drive
emumouse.com
fine tune internal mousedriver of Dosemu
+ emumouse h -- display help screen
exitemu.com
terminate Dosemu
ugetcwd.com
get the Unix directory for Dosemu (use getcwd(2))
isemu.com
detects Dosemu version and returns greater 0 if running under
Dosemu
lancheck.exe
???
lredir.com
redirect Linux directory to Dosemu
+ lredir -- show current redirections
+ lredir D: LINUX\FS\tmp -- redirects /tmp to drive D:
+ lredir help -- display help screen
mgarrot.com
give up cpu time when Dosemu is idle
speed.com
set cpu usage (HogThreshold) from inside Dosemu
system.com
interface to system(2)...
unix.com
execute Unix commands from Dosemu
+ unix -- display help screen
+ unix ls -al -- list current Linux directory
+ caution! try "unix" and read the help screen
cmdline.exe
Read /proc/self/cmdline and put strings such as "var=xxx" found
on the commandline into the DOS enviroment. Example having this
as the dosemu commandine:
dosemu.bin "autoexec=echo This is a test..."
then doing
C:\cmdline < D:\proc\self\cmdline
%autoexec%
would display "This is a test..." on the DOS-Terminal
vgaoff.com
disable vga option
vgaon.com
enable vga option
xmode.exe
set special X parameter when running as xdos
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13.2. Drivers
These are useful drivers for Dosemu
cdrom.sys
allow direct access to CD-ROM drives from Dosemu
ems.sys
enable EMM in Dosemu
emufs.sys
redirect Unix directory to Dosemu
aspi.sys
ASPI conform SCSI driver
fossil.com
FOSSIL serial driver (TSR)
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14. Keymaps
This keymap is for using dosemu over telnet, and having *all* your
keys work. This keymap is not complete. But hopefully with everyones
help it will be someday :)
There are a couple of things that are intentionally broken with this
keymap, most noteably F11 and F12. This is because they are not
working though slang correctly at the current instant. I have them
mapped to "greyplus" and "greyminus". Also the scroll lock is mapped
to shift-f3. This is because the scroll lock dosn't work right at all.
Please feel free to send keymap patches in that fix anything but
these.
If you want to patch dosemu to fix either of those problems, i'd be
glad to accept those :)
to figure out how to edit this, read the keystroke-howto.
as of 3/30/95, control/shift/alternate
home/insert/delete/end/pageup/pagedown should work.
Major issues will be:
Do we move "alt-<fkey>" to "control-<fkey>" to switch virtual
consoles?
who is going to fix the linux keyboard device to be able to handle
multiple keymaps at the same time?
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to use it:
as root type
loadkeys dosemu.new.keymap
(then run dosemu via telnet, or something in slang mode)
when your done, find your old keymap, and load it back, cause
control-home won't work in emacs anymore (or any other special key in
any applicaion that uses xlate)
if you find a key missing, please add it and send me the patch. (test
it first! :)
if you find a key missing, and don't feel like coding it, don't tell
me! I already know that there are a lot of keys missing.
corey sweeney <corey@interaccess.com >
Sytron Computers
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15. Networking using DOSEMU
15.1. Direct NIC access
The easiest (and not recommended) way to set up the networking in
DOSEMU is to use the direct NIC access. It means that DOSEMU will
exclusively use one of your network interfaces, say eth0. No other
processes will be able to use that interface. If they try to, the data
exchange will became unreliable. So you have to make sure that this
network interface is not used by anything including the kernel itself,
before starting DOSEMU. The settings for this method are as follows:
$_pktdriver = (on)
$_netdev = "eth0"
$_vnet = "direct"
Note that this method requires root privileges.
As you can see, this simple method has many shortcomings. If you don't
have the network card dedicated specially for dosemu, consider using
more advanced method called "Virtual Networking".
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15.2. Virtual networking
Virtual networking is a mechanism that allows to overcome all the
limitations of the direct NIC access method, but it requires more work
to set up everything properly. A special virtual network devices can
be created using TUN/TAP interface. This will enable multiple dosemu
sessions and the linux kernel to be on a separate virtual network.
Each dosemu will have its own network device and ethernet address.
First make sure that your Linux kernel comes with support for TUN/TAP;
for details check Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt in the Linux
kernel source. The user who runs DOSEMU should have read/write access
to /dev/net/tun. Then either:
1. Set
$_pktdriver=(on)
$_vnet = "tap"
$_netdev = ""
Start DOSEMU as usual and configure the network device while
DOSEMU is running (using ifconfig manually as root, a script, or
usernetctl if your distribution supplies that), e.g.
ifconfig tap0 up 192.168.74.1
Configure the DOS TCP/IP network clients to have another IP
address in the subnet you just configured. This address should be
unique, i.e. no other dosemu, or the kernel, should have this
address. For the example addresses given above,
192.168.74.2-192.168.74.254 would be good. Your network should now
be up and running and you can, for example, use a DOS SSH client
to ssh to your own machine, but it will be down as soon as you
exit DOSEMU.
2. Or set
$_pktdriver=(on)
$_vnet = "tap
$_netdev = "tap0"
Obtain tunctl from the user mode linux project. Then set up a
persistent TAP device using tunctl (use the -u owner option if you
do that as root). Configure the network using ifconfig as above,
but now before starting DOSEMU. Now start DOSEMU as often as you
like and you can use the network in the same way as you did above.
Note, however, that multiple DOSEMU sessions that run at the same
time need to use multiple tapxx devices. $_netdev can be changed
without editing dosemu.conf/~./dosemurc (if you leave it commented
out there) by using [x]dosemu -I "netdev tap1".
With the above you did set up a purely virtual internal network
between the DOSEMU and the real Linux box. This is why in the above
example 192.168.74.1 should *not* be a real IP address of the Linux
box, and the 192.168.74 network should not exist as a real network. To
enable DOS programs to talk to the outside world you have to set up
Ethernet bridging or IP routing.
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15.2.1. Bridging
Bridging, using brctl (look for the bridge-utils package if you don't
have it), is somewhat easier to accomplish than the IP routing. You
set up a bridge, for example named "br0" and connect eth0 and tap0 to
it. Suppose the Linux box has IP 192.168.1.10 on eth0, where
192.168.1.x can be a real LAN, and the uid of the user who is going to
use DOSEMU is 500, then you can do (as root):
brctl addbr br0
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
brctl addif br0 eth0
ifconfig br0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
tunctl -u 500
ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
brctl addif br0 tap0
Now the DOSEMU's IP can be set to (for example) 192.168.1.11. It will
appear in the same network your linux machine is.
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15.2.2. IP Routing
If you like to use IP routing, note that unlike with bridging, each
DOSEMU box will reside in a separate IP subnet, which consists only of
2 nodes: DOSEMU itself and the corresponding TAP device on Linux side.
You have to choose an IP address for that subnet. If your LAN has the
address 192.168.1.0 and the netmask is 255.255.255.0, the dosemu
subnet can have the address 192.168.74.0 and tap0 can have the address
192.168.74.1:
ifconfig tap0 192.168.74.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
Choose a valid IP address from that subnet for DOSEMU box. It can be
192.168.74.2. Configure your DOS client to use that IP. Configure your
DOS client to use a gateway, which is the TAP device with IP
192.168.74.1. Then you have to add the proper entry to the routing
table on your Linux box:
route add -net 192.168.74.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev tap0
The resulting entry in the routing table will look like this:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.74.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 tap0
Then, unless the Linux box on which DOSEMU is running is a default
gateway for the rest of you LAN, you will have to also add an entry to
the routing table on each node of your LAN:
route add -net 192.168.74.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.10
(192.168.1.10 is the IP of the box DOSEMU is running on). Also you
have to check whether IP forwarding is enabled, and if not - enable
it:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Now DOSEMU will be able to access any node of your LAN and vice versa.
Yet one more thing have to be done if you want dosemu to be able to
access Internet. Unlike in your LAN, you are not supposed to change
the routing tables on an every Internet host, so how to make them to
direct the IP packets back to dosemu's virtual network? To accomplish
this, you only have to enable the IP Masquerading on the network
interface that looks into Internet. If your machine serves as a
gateway in a LAN, then the masquerading is most likely already
enabled, and no further work is required. Otherwise you must add the
following into your iptables configuration file (assuming the eth0
interface serves the Internet connection):
*nat
-A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
COMMIT
After restarting iptables, you'll find your dosemu session being able
to access Internet. For more info about the IP Masquerading have a
look into IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.
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16. Using Windows and Winsock
This is the Windows Net Howto by Frisoni Gloriano <gfrisoni@hi-net.it>
on 15 may 1997
This document tries to describe how to run the Windows trumpet winsock
over the dosemu built-in packet driver, and then run all TCP/IP
winsock-based application (netscape, eudora, mirc, free agent .....)
in windows environment.
This is a very long step-by-step list of operation, but you can make
little scripts to do all very quickly ;-)
In this example, I use the dosnet based packet driver. It is very
powerful because you can run a "Virtual net" between your dos-windows
session and the linux, and run tcp/application application without a
real (hardware) net.
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16.1. LIST OF REQUIRED SOFTWARE
* The WINPKT.COM virtual packet driver, version 11.2 I have found
this little tsr in the Crynwr packet driver distribution file
PKTD11.ZIP
* The Trumpet Winsock 2.0 revision B winsock driver for windows.
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16.2. STEP BY STEP OPERATION (LINUX SIDE)
* Enable "dosnet" based dosemu packet driver:
cd ./src/dosext/net/net
select_packet (Ask single or multi -> m)
* Make the dosnet linux module:
cd ./src/dosext/net/v-net
make
* Make the new dosemu, with right packet driver support built-in:
make
make install
* Now you must load the dosnet module:
insmod ./src/dosext/net/v-net/dosnet.o
* Some linux-side network setup (activate device, routing). This
stuff depends from your environment, so I write an example setup.
Here you configure a network interface dsn0 (the dosnet interface)
with the ip address 144.16.112.1 and add a route to this
interface.
This is a good example to make a "virtul network" from your
dos/windows environment and the linux environment.
ifconfig dsn0 144.16.112.1 broadcast 144.16.112.255 netmask 255.255.2
55.0
route add -net 144.16.112.0 dsn0
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16.3. STEP BY STEP OPERATION (DOS SIDE)
I suppose you know how to run windows in dosemu. You can read the
Section 9 document if you need more information. Windows is not very
stable, but works.
* start dosemu.
* copy the winpkt.com driver and the trumpet winsock driver in some
dos directory.
* start the winpkt TSR. (dosemu assign the 0x60 interrupt vector to
the built-in packet driver)
winpkt 0x60
* edit the trumpet winsock setup file trumpwsk.ini. Here is an
example of how to setup this file: (I think you can use less
parameters, if you have the time to play with this file. You can
also setup this stuff from the winsock setup dialog-box).
[Trumpet Winsock]
netmask=255.255.255.0 <-- class C netmask.
gateway=144.16.112.1 <-- address in the default gateway.
dns=www.xxx.yyy.zzz <-- You must use right value for the dns.
domain=hi-net.it
ip=144.16.112.10 <-- Windows address in the dosnet.
vector=60 <-- packet driver interrupt vector.
mtu=1500
rwin=4096
mss=1460
rtomax=60
ip-buffers=32
slip-enabled=0 <--- disable slip
slip-port=2
slip-baudrate=57600
slip-handshake=1
slip-compressed=0
dial-option=1
online-check=0
inactivity-timeout=5
slip-timeout=0
slip-redial=0
dial-parity=0
font=Courier,9
registration-name=""
registration-password=""
use-socks=0
socks-host=0.0.0.0
socks-port=1080
socks-id=
socks-local1=0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
socks-local2=0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
socks-local3=0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
socks-local4=0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
ppp-enabled=0 <-------- disable ppp
ppp-usepap=0
ppp-username=""
ppp-password=""
win-posn=42 220 867 686 -1 -1 -4 -4 1
trace-options=16392
[default vars]
* Now you can run windows, startup trumpet winsock and ..... enjoy
with your windoze tcp/ip :-)
Gloriano Frisoni. <gfrisoni@hi-net.it>
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