Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:34:14 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: doscmd: Help? Message-ID: <19980422123414.48424@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <199804191709.LAA08320@lariat.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Apr 04, 1998 at 11:09:01AM -0600 References: <199804191709.LAA08320@lariat.lariat.org>
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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
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