Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:51:42 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOSCMD: Problems w/ Quicken Message-ID: <199801190321.NAA00804@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jan 1998 19:23:19 CDT." <19980118192319.02894@ct.picker.com>
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> I still use Quicken 5.0 for DOS, and boot into DOS every 3-4 weeks to use it. > > So I decided to try it on DOSCMD -- would be great if I could run it in > FreeBSD. I can identify with that. 8) > The main menu comes up, but when I hit the down arrow key in the "inverted > T (middle) keypad, I get: > > ax=0000 bx=ffff cx=ff07 dx=0000 > si=001c di=001a sp=fe64 bp=fe78 > cs=30bb ss=3db8 ds=0040 es=9e99 > ip=357 eflags=34246 > 8b 07 3c e0 75 02 32 c0 3b 1c fb 1f 5e 5f 5b ca > movw (%bx),%ax > unsupported instruction Yecch. If it's actually trying to do what the above claims, it's making quite a mess. (0040:0000 is in seriously low memory, but 0040:ffff doesn't make any sense at all). > If instead I hit the down arrow in the numeric (right) keypad, the menu > behaves as though several selection keys were pressed, neither of which had > anything to do with down-arrow. The same type of thing happens if I hit > "P" for preferences. This looks like a difference of opinion about what the keypad keycodes should be. If you want to start attacking something, the crash above would be more worthwhile. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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