Hi,
I'm mailing this address since it was listed on the EMUfailure web
page. I'll apologize now if I have the wrong folks.
I'm running dosemu on debian's potato release. It's dosemu-0.98.8.0
run msdos 6.0. The failure occured during the install of Origin
Systems' Ultima Collection. One failure is that the install batch
uses the /-y option on xcopy which isn't in dos 6.0. I made a version
without the offend option and noticed that the statements like
"xcopy %1\ultima1\u1.bat"
were bombing for no apparent reason. It almost looked like the %1 was
not being resolved. I'm afraid I'm not fluent enough in batch to tell
if this is also their mistake, but it looks right to me. A sample of
the output is below:
Akalabeth installation complete!
File not found - U1.BAT
0 Files(s) copied
Installing Ultima I...
Reading source files(s)...
The third problem which I am pretty should is not Origins fault is the
xdos hung at this point in the program. It looks like it would have
been running
"xcopy %1\ultima1\*.* /s /e"
(note this is from the version with the /-y option removed).
I tried all sorts of kills including kill -9, and I tried
dosdebug/kill which claims to have killed the process but it's still
there. Also, I can't eject the CD it was installing from. (Big
surprise.) Maybe I should have tried the dosdebug/kill first?
On a side note, http://www.dosemu.org/docs/EMUfailure (for version
0.66.5) says the most recent version of the failures doc can be found
at ftp.mathematik.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/linux/bonnes/, however the
version there is older (0.64.4). It won't kill anyone, but I thought
I'd mention it.
Let me know if you would like any more info.
Thanks,
Dan Hursh
