Help requested: Dosemu/Dosbox

[Sanjay Arora]

Hello all

I have an old xbase/clipper program that I need to run on Linux. Tried it
some time ago on Dosemu on CentOS. Need to run it on Fedora now as the new
hardware does not load CentOS.

Found that Dosemu is missing from Fedora 15 and Dosbox is there instead.
However, it clearly states that printing is not a priority for it and I need
to print out to a Dot-Matrix printer.

Can someone advise why Dosemu has been dropped? And strangely I cannot find
any repo that I can enable while maintaining fedora with protectbase yum
plugin....google searches yield rpm search engines with downloadable rpms
but I can't seem to get to a repo.

Can someone please advise? Graphics & sound are not an issue for me and the
use case is accounting.

With best regards.
Sanjay.

[Franta Hanzlík]

Sanjay Arora wrote:
>  Hello all
>  
>  I have an old xbase/clipper program that I need to run on Linux. Tried it some
>  time ago on Dosemu on CentOS. Need to run it on Fedora now as the new hardware
>  does not load CentOS.
>  
>  Found that Dosemu is missing from Fedora 15 and Dosbox is there instead.
>  However, it clearly states that printing is not a priority for it and I need
>  to print out to a Dot-Matrix printer.
>  
>  Can someone advise why Dosemu has been dropped? And strangely I cannot find
>  any repo that I can enable while maintaining fedora with protectbase yum
>  plugin....google searches yield rpm search engines with downloadable rpms but
>  I can't seem to get to a repo.
>  
>  Can someone please advise? Graphics & sound are not an issue for me and the
>  use case is accounting.
>  
>  With best regards.
>  Sanjay. 
There was any strange (for me) decision from fedora gurus about
DOSEMU - although both DOSEMU and FreeDOS have GPL licences, they
stated that dosemu cannot be in Fedora because FreeDOS is compiled
by non-free Watcom compiler.

Maybe now should be possible include DOSEMU to fedora main repo, as
FreeDOS can be assembled with OpenWatcom compiler.
Or, second way, is include DOSEMU into fedora repo without FreeDOS.

Till then, there is fortunately DOSEMU package in rpmfusion-free repo.

Franta Hanzlik

[Sanjay Arora]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Lewis Handy <lewis.handy(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  You could always try a virtual machine with freedos, that is how I play all
> > my old dos games under linux these days.
> > --
> >
>  What about printing on LPT/Parallel port in such a case? 
Thanks.
Sanjay.

[Lewis Handy]

On 12 September 2011 10:12, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello all
>
>  I have an old xbase/clipper program that I need to run on Linux. Tried it
>  some time ago on Dosemu on CentOS. Need to run it on Fedora now as the new
>  hardware does not load CentOS.
>
>  Found that Dosemu is missing from Fedora 15 and Dosbox is there instead.
>  However, it clearly states that printing is not a priority for it and I need
>  to print out to a Dot-Matrix printer.
>
>  Can someone advise why Dosemu has been dropped? And strangely I cannot find
>  any repo that I can enable while maintaining fedora with protectbase yum
>  plugin....google searches yield rpm search engines with downloadable rpms
>  but I can't seem to get to a repo.
>
>  Can someone please advise? Graphics & sound are not an issue for me and the
>  use case is accounting.
>
>  With best regards.
>  Sanjay.
>
>  You could always try a virtual machine with freedos, that is how I play all
>  my old dos games under linux these days.
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