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- From: ace3@quads.uchicago.edu (AA Acero (Tony))
- Subject: 'Special' keys not working in DOS Emulator
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.172517.25575@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Summary: see subject
- Keywords: keyboard, emulator, dos, linux
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: ace3@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:25:17 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- I have been playing with the DOS emulator v 0.4 (kernel version 98.6);
- it's really amazing -- nice work!!
-
- By mucking about with emu.c (in the neighborhood of line 60) I've been
- able to run DOS executables directly off my hard disk (instead of
- copying them to the hdimage file). Here's a hint: to get the hard disk
- geometry use the (linux) fdisk command 'p'. The hard disk geometry is
- required to make the appropriate changes to emu.c. BE SURE TO LEAVE
- THE READ-ONLY FLAG __ON__ UNTIL YOU ARE SURE, SURE, SURE THAT
- EVERYTHING IS WORKING CORRECTLY. (Let's be careful out there :-))
-
- Anyway, in particular, I've been able to run Quicken (in an xterm of
- all things :-)!) Unfortunately none of the special keys generate the
- correct response under the DOS emulator. (A special key is
- Alt-anything, the cursor pad keys and the function keys). All the the
- keys I've tried seem to generate ESC[<letter>. I thought this might be
- caused by running under an xterm so I tried it outside of X and had the
- same response. Looking through the code, it seems that Alt keys and
- such are expected and should work, so what's going on??
-
- I have the US keyboard defined in kernel Makefile and DO NOT define the
- Latin keyboard define in the emulator makefile.
-
- Any help would be gratefully accepted. I am so excited!! If I can run
- Quicken under Linux I MIGHT NEVER HAVE TO BOOT DOS AGAIN!!!
-
- Thanks to all you folks,
-
- tony acero
-
- --
- .sig file out for repair (did a 'rm .[a-z]*' (wanted .[a-z]*~ -- Gee I'm
- smart!!)) Tony Acero ace3@quads.uchicago.edu
- presently experimenting @ Cornell (607)255-7163 or (607)272-6468 until 12/10
- (312)702-8214(lab) or (312)752-5464(home) thereafter
-