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How to tell which dosemu version I have?

DISCUSSION Larry Alkoff 3 participants 5 messages May 14, 2007 – May 15, 2007

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How to tell which dosemu version I have?

I _believe_ my version used to be 1.3.3.

For my new install of Kubuntu Feisty first copied over the old ~/.dosemu and then used apt-get dosemu
to install it.

aptitude -vv show dosemu
reports version 1.2.2.8

Is there any way to interregate dosemu itself to get it's version number?

Thanks, Larry

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Quoted 7 lines · Larry Alkoff

How to tell which dosemu version I have?

I _believe_ my version used to be 1.3.3.

For my new install of Kubuntu Feisty first copied over the old ~/.dosemu and then used apt-get dosemu to install it.

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aptitude -vv show dosemu
reports version 1.2.2.8

Is there any way to interregate dosemu itself to get it's version number?

Thanks, Larry

When I start up, I see the version number displayed.

Try this from command line:

C:> echo %DOSEMU_VERSION%

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Quoted 16 lines · Mike McCarty
Quoted 7 lines · Larry Alkoff

How to tell which dosemu version I have?

I _believe_ my version used to be 1.3.3.

For my new install of Kubuntu Feisty first copied over the old ~/.dosemu and then used apt-get dosemu to install it.

Quoted 7 lines

aptitude -vv show dosemu
reports version 1.2.2.8

Is there any way to interregate dosemu itself to get it's version number?

Thanks, Larry

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When I start up, I see the version number displayed.

Try this from command line:

C:> echo %DOSEMU_VERSION%

Mike

Thanks very much Mike. The echo statement worked and I have logged it into my dosemu.nfo file. It's good information.

echo %DOSEMU_VERSION% reported 1.3.3.0 but that doesn't square with the fact that I used apt-get to load 1.2.2.8.

Any idea which file the version number comes from?

Larry

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Quoted 7 lines · Larry Alkoff

Thanks very much Mike. The echo statement worked and I have logged it into my dosemu.nfo file. It's good information.

echo %DOSEMU_VERSION% reported 1.3.3.0 but that doesn't square with the fact that I used apt-get to load 1.2.2.8.

Any idea which file the version number comes from?

You may have two dosemu's (and dosemu.bin's) installed, one, 1.2.2-8, in /usr/bin and the other one, 1.3.3, in /usr/local/bin, and /usr/local/bin comes first in your $PATH.

Bart

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Quoted 6 lines · Larry Alkoff

Thanks very much Mike. The echo statement worked and I have logged it into my dosemu.nfo file. It's good information.

echo %DOSEMU_VERSION% reported 1.3.3.0 but that doesn't square with the fact that I used apt-get to load 1.2.2.8.

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Any idea which file the version number comes from?

You may have two dosemu's (and dosemu.bin's) installed, one, 1.2.2-8, in /usr/bin and the other one, 1.3.3, in /usr/local/bin, and /usr/local/bin comes first in your $PATH.

Bart

Bart you are absolutely right - there were two dosemu.bin's.

I've moved the files in /usr/local/bin to /usr/local/bin/old because they wouldn't start dosemu.

The grep 1.2 /usr/bin/dosemu.bin produces several hits of visible 1.2 in the text portions (I realize . matches any character) and grep 1.3 produces no hits.

So I indeed have 1.2.2.8 which is what apt-get reported.

Whenever 1.4 comes out in a deb file I'll try that but for now I'm pretty happy.

I regularly run a number of DOS programs - Supercalc (spreadsheet), Wordstar and Q&A. I especially use a lot of SC because my fingers know what to do without thought!

Thanks toboth of you for helping.

Larry

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