From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp and Linux
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 23:20:02 GMT
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On 21 Mar 1997 06:21:21 GMT, "Carlos A Alcalde"
<calcalde AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:

>Can djgpp run in the UMSDOS environment under Linux? Has any one been able
>to run Rhide under such conditions? The reason I ask is that it would make
>Rhide the best (and only) freely available programming editor in the Linux
>world.

When I'm at university with a nice fat Ethernet link to my computer, I
leave it running Linux all the time and do my MS-DOS programming under
dosemu using DJGPP. This all works perfectly; read the FAQ section
which mentions dosemu (search for it) and make the recommended changes
to /etc/dosemu.conf (DPMI memory, etc).

Running RHIDE under dosemu works almost fine for me; the only problem
I have had is that nothing happens after startup until I move the
mouse a bit. Then everything works fine (provided there is enough DPMI
memory). If you type a lot before moving the mouse, it will crash
dosemu (on my system, anyway).

Also, if you use Allegro version 2.2 under dosemu, you'll need a patch
before the keyboard routines will work. You need raw keyboard support
enabled in /etc/dosemu.conf, and edit keyboard.c commenting out all
references to the keyboard LED functions. Alternatively, look on my
downloads page and you'll find a patch Shawn Hargreaves sent me which
almost fixes this problem. The URL is:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert0407/downloads.html

-- 
George Foot