dosemu 1.0.2.1, FreeDOS, and MS-DOS 6.22

I find that FreeDOS loads and works fine with lredir. But certain DOS apps important to me won't load with it. So I tried using MS-DOS 6.22 instead, by creating an msdos directory under ~/mydos/dosemu, and then copying my MS-DOS files to that directory (~/mydos/dosemu/msdos). I then changed dosemu.conf to point to 'msdos' instead of 'freedos'. This fails to complete its bootup. I see it go through some of the autoexec.bat and then do it again for some reason, and then wait for me to forcefully terminate the terminal session. Any attempt to use lredir is met with my seeing only the 'l' (from 'lredir') on the screen, and then I must forcefully terminate the session.

Quoted 10 lines · Ralph Alvy

I find that FreeDOS loads and works fine with lredir. But certain DOS apps important to me won't load with it. So I tried using MS-DOS 6.22 instead, by creating an msdos directory under ~/mydos/dosemu, and then copying my MS-DOS files to that directory (~/mydos/dosemu/msdos). I then changed dosemu.conf to point to 'msdos' instead of 'freedos'. This fails to complete its bootup. I see it go through some of the autoexec.bat and then do it again for some reason, and then wait for me to forcefully terminate the terminal session. Any attempt to use lredir is met with my seeing only the 'l' (from 'lredir') on the screen, and then I must forcefully terminate the session.

Here's what I see when I load dosemu with MS-DOS:

	Linux DOS emulator 1.0.2.1 $Date: 2001/10/13 $
	Last configured at Sat Oct 13 18:55:24 MEST 2001 on linux
	DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed

	Starting MS-DOS...


	C:\>PROMPT $p$g
	PATH C:\bin;c:\gnu;c:\dosemu
	SET TEMP=C:\tmp


	C:\>PROMPT $p$g
	PATH C:\bin;c:\gnu;c:\dosemu
	SET TEMP=C:\tmp

I'm left with what you see above, with the cursor blinking on the last blank line, as though it's waiting for another command. If I hit ENTER, I see another single iteration what you see above.

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I find that FreeDOS loads and works fine with lredir. But certain DOS apps important to me won't load with it. So I tried using MS-DOS 6.22 instead, by creating an msdos directory under ~/mydos/dosemu, and then copying my MS-DOS

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files to that directory (~/mydos/dosemu/msdos). I then changed dosemu.conf to point to 'msdos' instead of 'freedos'. This fails to complete its boot up. I see it go through some of the autoexec.bat and then do it again for some reason, and then wait for me to forcefully terminate the terminal session. Any attempt to use lredir is met with my seeing only the 'l' (from 'lredir') on the screen, and then I must forcefully terminate the session.

Here's what I see when I load dosemu with MS-DOS:

	Linux DOS emulator 1.0.2.1 $Date: 2001/10/13 $
	Last configured at Sat Oct 13 18:55:24 MEST 2001 on linux
	DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed

	Starting MS-DOS...


	C:\>PROMPT $p$g
	PATH C:\bin;c:\gnu;c:\dosemu
	SET TEMP=C:\tmp


	C:\>PROMPT $p$g
	PATH C:\bin;c:\gnu;c:\dosemu
	SET TEMP=C:\tmp

I'm left with what you see above, with the cursor blinking on the last blank line, as though it's waiting for another command. If I hit ENTER, I see another single iteration what you see above.

Hi Ralph.

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I find that FreeDOS loads and works fine with lredir. But certain DOS apps important to me won't load with it. So I tried using MS-DOS 6.22 instead, by creating an msdos directory under ~/mydos/dosemu, and then copying my MS-DOS

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files to that directory (~/mydos/dosemu/msdos). I then changed dosemu.conf to point to 'msdos' instead of 'freedos'. This fails to complete its boot up. I see it go through some of the autoexec.bat and then do it again for some reason, and then wait for me to forcefully terminate the terminal session. Any attempt to use lredir is met with my seeing only the 'l' (from 'lredir') on the screen, and then I must forcefully terminate the session.

Here's what I see when I load dosemu with MS-DOS:

	Linux DOS emulator 1.0.2.1 $Date: 2001/10/13 $
	Last configured at Sat Oct 13 18:55:24 MEST 2001 on linux
	DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed

	Starting MS-DOS...


	C:\>PROMPT $p$g
	PATH C:\bin;c:\gnu;c:\dosemu
	SET TEMP=C:\tmp


	C:\>PROMPT $p$g
	PATH C:\bin;c:\gnu;c:\dosemu
	SET TEMP=C:\tmp

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I'm left with what you see above, with the cursor blinking on the last blank line, as though it's waiting for another command. If I hit ENTER, I see another single iteration what you see above.

That looks like your AUTOEXEC.BAT file has the lines terminated only with an LF character, suggesting they were created with a Linux based editor. DOS in all its disguises requires lines terminated with CR and most also require that CR to be followed by LF although some just use the CR and treat the LF as a space.

Best wishes from Riley.

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That looks like your AUTOEXEC.BAT file has the lines terminated only with an LF character, suggesting they were created with a Linux based editor. DOS in all its disguises requires lines terminated with CR and most also require that CR to be followed by LF although some just use the CR and treat the LF as a space.

Thanks to both of you! I reloaded my autoexec and config files in a DOS text editor and all is well. Now I'm tweaking my dosemu.conf to accommodate the apps I need.

While I have your ears, I remember there was a way to forcefully close a full screen console. I thought it was something like Ctrl-Alt-PgDn, but that fails to work. Am I close?