Hi all,

I was trying to find a suitable dos-emulator that had straightforward parallel port access. dosbox's configuration in that regard has eluded me thus far...

So I got the source for dosemu and tried building and installing it, no dice. I search LQ for dosemu and found an unresolved thread in my beloved slacker forum, then found a solution and thought I'd share.
(a bit of a pissing contest brewing in the previous thread so I decided not to continue it)

Summary of problem: during install dosemu make doesnt find a font installing file:
/usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf

dosemu uses the file to install fonts (I think). Anyway the fix was easy enough, just run make install thus:

voila.. no more errors.

<clearly the DESTDIR is a matter of preference>

now if I can just get me damn parport working..

Hi,
Does your requirment for a simple parallel port access have anything to do with micro-controller programming.

John

yes...

i have an econorom3 that is just a B*TCH to run under linux, the -current software for it is win32, but requires this fancy driverx.sys crap to get to the parallel port..

on top of that I dont even have a real parallel port, I have a pcmcia parallel port...

but I _just_ got it to work!

i have another thread here detailing my trials & tribulations

i'll post my solution for this ER3 mess there.

Hi,
Thought so. Anyone interested in gEDA is also interested in micro-controller programming.
This is what I do on Slackware and about all I use a computer for.
Since Slackware 11 I have given up with DOS and use the avr suite.
Never had much luck on Slackware 10 but works great on 11.

John

how did you get avr suit running? I thought it was exclusively winblows...

I have the altium/tasking 8051, zilog dynamic-c, and a small PIC asm. only thing I haven;t tried yet is to install mplab. i've also got this cheapo USB programmer (TOP2004) that is as yet untested..

I would love to hear how you got avr suite running (i thought it was winblows only?) I tried installing that in wine but always gets errors. I even have an old version (from Joe Pardue's book) that I tried too and it didn't work either, just extracts to somehwere and then its gone... did you compile it yourself or something?

I havent tried that lately though as I'm not using any atmel in prj-current.

Hi,
Start here and follow all links:-

http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/

I can recomend this to anyone interested in starting with micro-controller programming.
All pure Linux command line. No gui X required.

John

thats awesome.. just bookmarked it!

unfortunately it'll have to wait until I can park my current project (inherited this tasking headache from previous development) will try and build the toolchain once my evenings are freed up again.

Hi,
In another of your posts I mentioned vaguely that I would like to make my own Slackware installation packages. It is for this. I figure it out this way. If I could make Slackware tgz packages then I could use those to install the toolchain on an old computer with a minimal Slackware installation. Perhaps only the a series. Then I could dedicate this to microcontroller programming. Please give this some consideration as you install the tool chain.

John