DOSEMU

Section: DOS Emulation (1)
Updated: July, 2001
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NAME

dosemu, xdosemu - run DOS and DOS programs under Linux

SYNOPSIS

dosemu [ -dumb ] [ -home ] [ -quiet ] [ -input keystroke-string ] [ args ]

xdosemu [ -dumb ] [ -home ] [ -quiet ] [ -input keystroke-string ] [ args ]

DESCRIPTION

dosemu is the wrapper script for dosemu.bin (1) which invokes the Linux dos emulator, also known as DOSEMU.

OPTIONS

args: any number of options described in dosemu.bin (1), please refer to this man page for further details. However, take care to quote and escape correctly so bash doesn't mess up arguments containing blanks and backslashes.
-dumb: use `dumb' terminal mode. This will only work for DOS applications, which do plain text output to stdout, but has the advantage that (A) the output of the DOS application stacks up in your xterm scroll buffer and (B) you can redirect it to a file such as
$ ./dosemu -dumb -E dir > listing: Note that DOSEMU command.com's commandline editor/history will also work here, however, editing is restricted to BACKSPACE'ing.
-home: in addition to drive C:, make the users $HOME available as drive D:. Note, however, that most of the Unix file names will get mangled.
-quiet: do not print startup comment and do not stop for prompting
-input: Do simulated keystrokes as given by keystroke-string just after DOS has booted. This can be used to autolaunch applications, bypass any needed boot menus or something similar. For details on the format of the string look at README.txt. Note, however, that the FreeDos kernel eats one keystroke at bootup in order to let you time to type in F8. So in this case you always should add a '\r' at the beginning of this keystroke-string. As a side effect it will bypass the 'F8' delay and FreeDos will boot faster ;-)

AUTHOR

DOSEMU (comprised of the files dosemu.bin and dosemu ) is based on version 0.4 of the original program written by Matthias Lautner (no current address that I know of).

Robert Sanders <gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu> was maintaining and enhancing the incarnation of DOSEMU with which this man page was originally distributed. During about 4 years James B. MacLean <macleajb@ednet.ns.ca> was the restless leader of the dosemu team, implementation of DPMI (which made Windows-3.1, dos4gw, djgpp, e.t.c running) happened during his 'governement' and brought the project near to Beta-state. Now Hans Lermen <lermen@fgan.de> is maintaining this funny software.

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