From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 22 10:34:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28342 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:34:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28328 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:34:48 GMT (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA13970; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:34:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id MAA17712; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:34:15 -0500 Message-ID: <19980422123414.48424@right.PCS> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:34:14 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Brett Glass Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: doscmd: Help? References: <199804191709.LAA08320@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <199804191709.LAA08320@lariat.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Apr 04, 1998 at 11:09:01AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Apr 04, 1998 at 11:09:01AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > I just set up a disk with -current to try out the doscmd DPS emulator, > which I will need to move a production system to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, > I haven't had much luck. Running a program called ThinkTank, I got > a cryptic error message saying that doscmd didn't support an INT 10 > (video BIOS) function the program called. (It mostly does direct screen > writes, so the call must have simply been the one that sets the cursor > to be invisible.) So, I tried recompiling the program with X support. > I launched it under xdm, and it then complained that it needed a "vga.pcf" > font file. Found a font called vga11x19, added it, did a mkfontdir, rehashed, > exited, re-entered, and the emulator STILL complained it didn't have the font. I haven't tried running doscmd without X, but there are some interrupt calls that are unimplemented. I was under the impression that vga.pcf came with the standard X distribution. If this isn't the case, then perhaps I should add it to the base distribution? (vga.pcf.Z emailed to questioner directly) -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message