Re: emacs...

[fenda@xxxxxxxx]

I knew the post you are quoting. The big problem is with screen,
printing, etc. not with fstab (drives and filesystems). There a lot of
Dosemu parameters we need to tune up to get XyWrite4 running OK under
Linux but I suppose it's possible.
Best regards,
Manuel Castelao

"Ambos, Paul" wrote:
>
> As to customizing Linux for Xy4, Arthur Steinberg had sent the following
> message to the list on April 22, 1999 under the subject "xydos under linux:
> permissions". Perhaps this can help. (I myself have yet to make the foray
> into Linux and so can't vouch for his suggestion.)
>
> [quote]
>
> for those of you interested in trying xydos under linux i am sending
> you a linux file you ought to know about. it is called /etc/fstab and
> governs some of the parameters of various devices on your computer.
>
> my xywrite and its files are all on the /win partition of my computer (i
> kept
> it as a dual boot system). but i want access to xywrite and those
> files when i login to my networked computer under linux, therefore the
> designation on the /dev/hda1 line. the 'umask=000' is the critical
> part to make xy and these files accessible.
>
> /dev/hda5        /        ext2  defaults        1 1
> /dev/hda3        swap      swap  defaults        0 0
> /dev/fd0        /floppy     msdos  noauto,user       0 0
> /dev/cdrom       /cdrom     iso9660 noauto,ro,user     0 0
> none          /proc      proc  defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda1        /win      vfat  defaults,user,umask=000 0 0
> /dev/hda2        /old      ext2  defaults        0 0
>
> hope this helps.
>
> arthur steinberg
> [end quote]
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Ambos
> pambos@xxxxxxxx
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fenda@xxxxxxxx [SMTP:fenda@xxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 12:56 PM
> > To:  xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject:   Re: emacs...
> >
> > I suppose it would be easy for an Emacs-Lisp programmer to emulate
> > XyWrite from Emacs. Anyhow, I think that the solution would be a good
> > DOS box for Linux. Dosemu (the DOS emulator for Linux) requires a lot of
> > effort to customize it. I don't have expertise enough to get XyWrite4
> > working well under it.
> > Manuel Castelao