Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:- > .... > > But I would like to have dosemu available to dummies, a.k.a. > ordinary users. > > I tried out the binary install. First, very thoroughly, I removed > all previous installations of dosemu, freedos, and the dosemu fonts. > > Then I downloaded from www.dosemu.org > > dosemu-1.2.0-bin.tgz > dosemu-freedos-b9-bin.tgz > > A) I did what README.bindist says. > > $mkdir mydos > $cd mydos > $tar -zxf dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz
Yes, as I remember the instructions of HOW TO unpack the tar-ball is available AFTER it has been unpacked ?! > ... > The same, of course, happens if you do NOT create a subdir called > mydos. The dosemu-bin and dosemu-freedos packages can also just be > unpacked from ~ (where the Ordinary User normally downloads it), > with all the stuff ending up in ~/dosemu. So why mydos? Perhaps 'tabulated' info about the various [sub] dir contents would be better than a prose description ? > Of course these problems are trivial for reasonably sophisticated > users. But many ordinary users just give up. Can't we *at the very > least* provide some instructions which, if followed to the letter, > make the software work? Isn't this worth some effort? The first step is for potential users [ vs. developers ] to make known these serious problems - which you are doing ? == Chris Glur. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
