Hi,

I've just updated from 3.18b to 3.19b and I noticed that my DOS doors don't work any longer.
I'm running SBBS on Devuan (=Debian) Linux.

When launching dosemu from a console, it is starting up and working.

I had a look at the external.bat in the node directory and tried the "For debugging" command.
But as soon as I add the parameter '-I"serial { virtual com 1 }"', it is hanging.
The dosemu_boot.log seems fine, it says 'registering /dev/pts/1 for serial" and seems to start ("ENTER CPU-EMU").

Do I have to reconfigure something for v3.19b and dosemu?

In sbbs.ini, I have:
UseDOSemu = true
DOSemuPath = /usr/bin/dosemu.bin
DOSemuConfPath = /sbbs/dos
(I have my DOS stuff in /sbbs/dos)

I'm out of ideas on how to debug this further...

Thank you!

Regards,
Anna

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Re: dosemu in v3.19b
By: acn to All on Wed Jan 12 2022 05:31 pm

Hi,

I've just updated from 3.18b to 3.19b and I noticed that my DOS doors don't work any longer.
I'm running SBBS on Devuan (=Debian) Linux.

When launching dosemu from a console, it is starting up and working.

I had a look at the external.bat in the node directory and tried the "For debugging" command.
But as soon as I add the parameter '-I"serial { virtual com 1 }"', it is hanging.
The dosemu_boot.log seems fine, it says 'registering /dev/pts/1 for serial" and seems to start ("ENTER CPU-EMU").

Do I have to reconfigure something for v3.19b and dosemu?

In sbbs.ini, I have:
UseDOSemu = true
DOSemuPath = /usr/bin/dosemu.bin
DOSemuConfPath = /sbbs/dos
(I have my DOS stuff in /sbbs/dos)

I'm out of ideas on how to debug this further...

Did you double-check with the updated instructions at https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu ?

The default/sample dosemu.conf is in the ctrl directory now, it seems. <shrug> Sorry, I don't use DOSemu, so I'm just going off the wiki and what's in Git.
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El 12/1/22 a las 13:31, acn escribió:

Hi,

I've just updated from 3.18b to 3.19b and I noticed that my DOS doors don't work any longer.
I'm running SBBS on Devuan (=Debian) Linux.

In some previous versions and out of habit I used make USE_DOSEMU=1 to compile.

I think that now it is not necessary, but I don't know if the build
system does any search to compile or not with the dosemu support, maybe
this is failing in Devuan.

Saludos!

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Hi,

I've found my problem and maybe it was my own fault.
The external.bat file in /sbbs/exec that I've adapted to my needs had the wrong file encoding (UNIX line endings and not DOS line endings) and thus dosemu failed to start the door game.

After running 'unix2dos external.bat', everything is working again and so I'm back in business :)

Just for reference, if someone is interested, this is my external.bat:

----EXTERNAL.BAT
E:

REM Switch to startup dir, unless its not defined
REM If not defined, go to node dir (external editors use this)
IF "%STARTDIR%"=="" D:
IF NOT "%STARTDIR%"=="" CD %STARTDIR%

$CMDLINE

IF NOT "%1" == "TEST" exitemu
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I've cut out the drive redirections etc., because my autoexec.bat in my PC-DOS dosemu installation already contains them:

----AUTOEXEC.BAT
@ECHO OFF
PATH C:\DOS;C:\DOSEMU;C:\UTI
LH C:\DOS\KEYB GR,437,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS /ID:129
VERIFY ON
PROMPT $P$G
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
SET DIRCMD=/OGEN

LH C:\DOS\DOSKEY
LH C:\UTI\NNANSI
LH C:\DOSEMU\FOSSIL
LH C:\DOS\SHARE

LREDIR E: linux\fs/sbbs/dos/apps
LREDIR F: linux\fs/sbbs/ctrl
LREDIR G: linux\fs/sbbs/data
LREDIR H: linux\fs/sbbs/exec

UNIX -s DOSDRIVE_D
IF "%DOSDRIVE_D%" == "" GOTO SKIPDRIVED
LREDIR D: linux\fs%DOSDRIVE_D%
:SKIPDRIVED
UNIX -e
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Regards,
Anna

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