2. Runtime Configuration Options

This section of the document by Hans, <lermen@fgan.de>. Last updated on Mar 20, 1998.

Most of DOSEMU configuration is done during runtime and per default it expects the system wide configuration file /etc/dosemu.conf optionally followed by the users  /.dosemurc and additional configurations statements on the commandline (-I option). The builtin configuration file of a DEXE file is passed using the -I technique, hence the rules of -I apply.

In fact /etc/dosemu.conf and  /.dosemurc (which have identical syntax) are included by the systemwide configuration script /var/lib/dosemu/global.conf, but as a normal user you won't ever think on editing this, only dosemu.conf and your personal  /.dosemurc.

In DOSEMU prior to 0.97.5 the private configuration file was called  /.dosrc (not to be confused with the new  /.dosemurc). This will work as expected formerly, but is subject to be nolonger supported in the near future. This (old)  /.dosrc is processed after global.conf and follows (same as -I) the syntax of global.conf.

The first file expected (and interpreted) before any other configuration (such as global.conf, dosemu.conf and  /.dosemurc) is /etc/dosemu.users. If /etc/dosemu.users doesn't exist, DOSEMU check for /etc/dosemu/dosemu.users, this makes people happy, which prefer to have to configuration stuff in a separate directory under /etc. Within dosemu.users the general permissions are set:

• which users are allowed to use DOSEMU.
• which users are allowed to use DOSEMU suid root.
• which users are allowed to have a private lib dir.
• what kind of access class the user belongs to.
• what special configuration stuff the users needs

and further more:

• wether the lib dir (/var/lib/dosemu) resides elsewhere.
• setting the loglevel.

This is done via setting configuration variables.

After /etc/dosemu.users /etc/dosemu.conf (via global.conf) is interpreted, and only during global.conf parsing access to all configuration options is allowed. Your personal  /.dosemurc is included directly after dosemu.conf, but has less access rights (in fact the lowest level), all variables you define within  /.dosemurc transparently are prefixed with `dosemu_' such that the normal namespace cannot be polluted (and a hacker cannot overwrite security relevant enviroment variables). Within global.conf only those  /.dosemurc created variables, that are needed are taken over and may overwrite those defined in /etc/dosemu.conf.

The dosemu.conf (global.conf) may check for the configuration variables, that are set in /etc/dosemu.users and optionaly include further configuration files. But once /etc/dosemu.conf (global.conf) has finished interpretation, the access to secure relevant configurations is (class-wise) restricted while the following interpretation of (old) .dosrc and -I statements.

For an example of a general configuration look at ./etc/global.conf. The later behaves insecure, when /etc/dosemu.users is a copy of ./etc/dosemu.users.easy and behave 'secure', when /etc/dosemu.users is a copy of ./etc/dosemu.users.secure.

2.1 Format of /etc/dosemu.users

Except for lines starting with x=' (explanation below), each line corresponds to exactly _one_ valid user count:

  loginname [ c_strict ] [ classes ...] [ c_dexeonly ] [ other ]

where the elements are:

loginname

valid login name (root also is one) or 'all'. The later means any user not mentioned in previous lines.

nosuidroot

Do not allow execution of a suid dosemu binary. The user may, howver, use a non-suid root copy of DOSEMU (reasonable sysadmins will supply it) For more information on this look at chapter 11.1 (`Priveleges and Running as User')

c_strict

Do not allow -F option (global.conf can't be replaced)

c_dexeonly

Only allow execution of DEXE files, forbid any other use.

classes

One or more of the following:

c_all

no restriction

c_normal

normal restrictions, all but the following classes: c_var, c_boot, c_vport, c_secure, c_irq, c_hardram.

c_var

allow (un)setting of configuration- and environment variables

c_nice

allow `HogThreshold' setting

c_floppy

allow floppy access

c_boot

allow definition of boot file/device

c_secure

allow setting of 'secure off'

c_vport

allow setting of 'allowvideoportaccess'

c_dpmi

allow DPMI setting

c_video

allow `video' setting

c_port

allow `port' setting

c_disk

allow `disk' settings

c_x

allow X support settings

c_sound

allow sound settings

c_irq

allow `irqpassing' statement

c_dexe

allow `dexe' settings

c_printer

allow printer settings

c_hardram

allow 'hardware_ram' settings

c_shell

allow the parser's `shell()' function

other

Here you may define any configuration variable, that you want to test in global.conf (or (old) .dosrc, -I), see `ifdef', `ifndef' When this variable is intended to be unset in lower privilege configuration files (.dosrc, -I), then the variable name has to be prefixed with `u_'.

private_setup

Keyword, this makes dosemu to accept a private DOSEMU lib under $HOME/.dosemu/lib. If this directory is existing, DOSEMU will expect all normally under /var/lib/dosemu within that directory,including `global.conf'. As this would be a security risc, it only will be allowed, if the used DOSEMU binary is non-suid-root. If you realy trust a user you may additionally give the keyword `unrestricted', which will allow this user to execute a suid-root binary even on a private lib directory (though, be aware).

unrestricted

Keyword, used to allow `private_setup' on suid-root binaries too. USE WITH CARE !

A line with '#' at colum 1 is treated as comment line. When only the login name is given (no further parameters, old format) the following setting is assumed:

  if 'root'  c_all
  else       c_normal

Other than with previous DOSEMU versions, the /etc/dosemu.users now is mandatory. Also note, that you may restrict 'root' doing something silly ;-)

In addition, dosemu.users can be used to define some global settings, which must be known before any other file is accessed, such as:

  default_lib_dir= /opt/dosemu  # replaces /var/lib/dosemu
  log_level= 2                  # highest log level

With `default_lib_dir=' you may move /var/lib/dosemu elsewere, this mostly is interesting for distributors, who want it elswere but won't patch the DOSEMU source just for this purpose. But note, the dosemu supplied scripts and helpers may need some adaption too in order to fit your new directory.

The `log_level=' can be 0 (never log) or 1 (log only errors) or 2 (log all) and controls the ammount written to the systems log facility (notice). This keyword replaces the former /etc/dosemu.loglevel file, which now is obsolete.

2.2 Format of /var/lib/dosemu/global.conf ( (old) .dosrc, -I option)

The configuration files are not line oriented, instead are consisting of `statements' (optionally separated by `;'), whitespaces are removed and all behind a '#' up to the end of the line is treated as comment. ( Note that older DOSEMUs also allowed `!' and `;' as comment character, but those are no longer supported ).

Enviroment variables and configuration variables

They existed already in very early versions of DOSEMU (until now), but now evironment variables are much more useful in dosemu.conf / global.conf as before, because you now can set them, test them in the new 'if' statement and compute them in expressions. The problem with the enviroment variables is, however, that the user may set and fake them before calling DOSEMU, hence this is a security problem. To avoid this, we have the above mentioned configuration variables, which are of complete different name space and are not visible outside of DOSEMU's configuration parser. On the other hand it may be useful to export settings from global.conf to the running DOS environment, which can be achieved by the 'unix.exe -e' DOS programm.

To summarize:

configuration variables

have their own namespace only within the configuration parser. They usual are prefixed by c_, u_ and h_ and cannot be made visible outside. They do not contain any value and are only tested for existence.

environment variables

are inherited from the calling process, can be set within global.conf (dosemu.conf) and passed to DOSEMU running DOS-applications. Within *.conf they always are prefixed by '$' (Hence TERM becomes $TERM, even on the left side of an assigment). However, setting them is controled by the configuration variable 'c_var' (see above) and may be disallowed within the user supplied (old) .dosrc and alike.

At startup DOSEMU generates the following environment variables, which may be used to let the configuration adapt better:

KERNEL_VERSION_CODE

holds the numerical coded version of the running linux kernel (same format as within linux/version.h)

DOSEMU_VERSION_CODE

holds the numerical coded version of the running DOSEMU version (format: MSB ... LSB == major, minor, patchlevel, sublevel)

DOSEMU_EUID

effective uid

DOSEMU_UID

uid. You may protect security relevant parts of the configuration such as:

if ( ! $DOSEMU_EUID && ($DOSEMU_EUID != $DOSEMU_UID) )
  warn "running suid root"
endif
  

DOSEMU_HOST

Name of the host DOSEMU is running on. This is same as what follows the `h_' configuration variable, see below. ( if not available, then DOSEMU_HOST contains `unknown' )

DOSEMU_USER

The user name, that got matched in /etc/dosemu.users. This needs not to be the _real_ user name, it may be `all' or `unknown'.

DOSEMU_REAL_USER

The user name out of getpwuid(uid).

DOSEMU_SHELL_RETURN

The exitcode (0-255) from the recently executed shell() command.

DOSEMU_OPTIONS

A string of all commandline options used (one character per option). You may remove a character from this string, such that the normal override of dosemu.conf settings will not take place for that option. However, parsing the command line options happens in two stages, one _before_ parsing dosemu.conf and one _after_. The options 'FfhIdLoO23456' have already gotten processed before dosemu.conf, so they can be disabled.

Conditional statements

You may control execution of configuration statements via the following conditional statement:

  ifdef <configuration variable>

  ifndef <configuration variable>
    ...
  else
    ...
  endif

where variable is a configuration variable (not an environment variable). Additionally there is a `normal' if statement, a while statement and a foreach statement such as

  if ( expression )
  endif
  while ( expression )
  done
  foreach loop_variable (delim, list)
  done

The 'else' clause may be ommitted and 'ifndef' is the opposite to 'ifdef'. The <variable> can't be tested for its contents, only if it is set or not. Clauses also may contain further if*def..endif clause up to a depth of 15. All stuff in /etc/dosemu.users behind the 'loginname' in fact are configuration variables that are set. Hence, what you set there, can be tested here in the config file. Further more you may set/unset configuration variables in the config files itself:

  define <configuration variable>
  undef  <configuration variable>

However, use of define/undef is restricted to scope of global.conf, as long as you don't 'define c_var' _within_ global.conf. If you are under scope of a 'user config file' (e.g. outside global.conf) you have to prefix the configuration variable name with 'u_', else it will not be allowed to be set/unset (hence 'c_' type variables can't be unset out of scope of global.conf).

There are some configuration variables (besides the ones described above for dosemu.users) implicitely predefined by DOSEMU itself:

c_system

set while being in /var/lib/dosemu/global.conf

c_user

set while parsing a user configuration file

c_dosrc

set while parsing (old) .dosrc

c_comline

set while parsing -I option statements

c_dexerun

set if a DEXE will be executed

h_<ownhost>

defined on startup as 'h_<host>.<domain>' of the host DOSEMU is running on. If <domain> can't be resolved, the pure hostname is taken. This makes sense only if a file system containing DOSEMU is mounted on diskless machines and you want restrict access. Note however, h_<ownhost> is set using gethostname/getdomainname. Hence, if the user on the diskless machine has root access, this is _not_ secure, because he could fake a valid address.

Also, you may define any 'u_' type variable at start of DOSEMU via the new option -u such as

this will then define the config variable 'u_myspecialfun' _before_ parsing any configuration file. You then may check this in your (old) ./dosrc or global.conf to do the needed special configuration.

Now, what's this with the if statement and while statement? All those conditionals via ifdef and indef are completly handled before the remaining input is passed to the parser. Hence you even may use them within a configuration statement such as

terminal { charset
  ifdef u_likeibm
    ibm
  else
    latin
  endif
  updatefreq 4  color on }

This is not the case with the (above mentioned) if statement, this one is of course processed within the parser itself and can only take place within the proper syntax context such as

      
  if ( defined( u_likeibm ) )
    $mycharset = "ibm"
  else
    $mycharset = "latin"
  endif
  terminal { charset $mycharset updatefreq 4  color on }

but it has the advantage, that you can put any (even complex) expression (see chapter `expressions') between the brackets. If the expression's numerical value is 0, then false is assumed, else true.

Same rules apply to the while statement, the loop will be executed as long as `expression' is not 0. The loop end is given by the keyword done such as in

  $counter = (3)
  while ($counter > 0)
    $counter = ($counter -1)
  done

  $list = "aa bbb ccc"
  while (strlen($list))
    $item = strdel($list, strchr($list," "), 999)
    $list = strsplit($list, (strlen($item)+1),9999);
    warn "doing something with ", $item
  done

The foreach statement behaves a bit like the /bin/sh `for i in', but you can specify a list of delimiters.

  $list = "anton, berta; caesar dora"
  $delim = " ,;"
  foreach $xx ($delim, $list)
    warn "My name is ", $xx
  done

  $list = "a b c : 1 2 3"
  $delim = ":"
  foreach $xx ($delim, $list)
    if ($delim eq ":")
      $delim = " ";
    else
      warn "processing number ", $xx
    endif
  done

For all loops and `if' statement the allowed depth is 32 (totally).

Include files

If you for some reason want to bundle some major settings in a separate file you can include it via

  include "somefile"

If 'somefile' doesn't have a leading '/', it is assumed to be relative to /etc. Also includeing may be nested up to a max depth of 10 files. Note however, that the privilege is inherited from the main file from which is included, hence all what is included by /var/lib/dosemu/global.conf has its privilege.

However, there are restrictions for `while' loops: You can't have include statements within loops without beeing prepared for unexpected behave. In fact you may try, but due to the technique used, include files within loops are loaded completely prior loop execution. Hence, if you do conditional including this won't work.

A further restriction is, that the name of the include file must not be a variable. However, you can work around this with a macro (see next chapter) as shows the following example:

  $file = $HOME, "/.my_dosrc_include"
  shell("test -f ", $file)
  if ( ! $DOSEMU_SHELL_RETURN)
    $INC = ' include "', $file, '"';
    $$INC
  endif

Macro substitution

There is a very rudimentary macro substitution available, which does allow recursion but no arguments: Whenever you write

  $MYMACRO = "warn 'this is executed as macro'" ;
  $$MYMACRO

  warn 'this is executed as macro'

Note, that the `;' is required for parser to recognize the end of the statement and to set the variable before it tries to read the next token (which will let the lexer process `$$MYMACRO'). Macro substitution is completely done on the input stream before the parser gets the data.

For what is it worth then? Now, this enables you to insert text into the input stream, that otherwise would be expected to be constant. Or simple, it allows you to be lazy to write the same things more then once.

  $loop = '
    while ($xxx)
      warn "loop in macro ",$xxx
      $xxx = ($xxx -1)
    done
  ';
  $xxx = (2); $$loop; $xxx = (3); $$loop;

  $_X_keycode = (off)
  $_X_lin_filt = (on)
  ...
  if ($_X_keycode) $_X_keycode = "keycode" else $_X_keycode = "" endif
  if ($_X_lin_filt) $_X_lin_filt = "lin_filt" else $_X_lin_filt = "" endif
  X { icon_name "xdos" $$_X_keycode $$_X_lin_filt }

Expressions

Expression within the configuration files follow the usual numerical rules and may be as complex as you wish. At some places, the parser only can `understand' expressions, when you enclose them in brackets, but mostly you just can type

  123 + 456 + 2 * 1.2

Though, if you want be sure, you better type them as

  ( 123 + 456 + 2 * 1.2 )

You may place expressions whenever a numerical value is expected and there is no ambiguity in the syntax. Such an ambiguity is given, when a statement needs more then one successive number such as

  ... winsize x y ...
  ... vesamode width heigh ...
  ... range from to ...

If you want to place expression herein, you need the new syntax for those statements / terms which have a coma (instead of a blank) as delimiter:

  ... winsize x , y ...
  ... vesamode width , heigh ...
  ... range from , to ...

The old syntax is left for compatibility and is only parsed correcty, if pure numbers (integers) are used.

Valid constant numbers (not only in expressions) are

  123     decimal, integer
  0x1a    hexadecimal, integer
  0b10101 bitstream, integer
  1.2     float number, real
  0.5e3   exponential form, real
  off     boolean false, integer
  on      boolean true, integer
  no      boolean false, integer
  yes     boolean true, integer

The following operator are recognized:

  + - *   as usual
  / div   division, the '/' _must_ be surrounded by whitespaces, else
          it conflicts with pathnames on quoteless strings
  |       bitwise or
  ^       bitwise exclusive or
  ~       bitwise not
  &       bitwise and
  >>      shift right
  <<      shift left
  <       less then
  <=      less or equal
  >       greater then
  >=      greater or equal
  ||      boolean or
  &&      boolean and
  !       boolean not
  ==      numerical equivalence
  eq      string equivalence
  !=      numerical, not equal
  ne      string not equal

The type of the expression result may be real (float) or integer, depending on which type is on the `left side'. Conversion is mostly done automaticaly, but you may force it using the (below mentioned) int() and real() functions such as:

   $is_real =    ( 3.1415 * 100 )
   $is_integer = ( int( 3.1415 * 100) )
   $is_integer = ( 100 * 3.1415 )
   $is_real =  ( real($is_integer) )

The above also shows, how environment variables can be set: if you want to place `expressions' (which are always numbers) onto a variable, you have to surround them with brackets, else the parser won't be able to detect them. In principal, all $xxx settings are string-settings and numbers will be converted correctly before. In fact the `$xxx =' statement accepts a complete coma separated list, which it will concatenate, examples:

  $termnum = (1)
  $MYTERM = "/dev/ttyp", $termnum       # results in "/dev/ttyp1"
  $VER = (($DOSEMU_VERSION_CODE >> 24) & 255)
  $MINOR = (($DOSEMU_VERSION_CODE >> 16) & 255)
  $running_dosemu = "dosemu-", $VER, ".", $MINOR

Several builtin functions, which can be used in expressions, are available:

int(real)

converts a float expression to integer

real(integer)

converts a integer expression to float

strlen(string)

returns the length of `string'

strtol(string)

returns the integer value of `string'

strncmp(str1,str2,expression)

compares strings, see `man strncmp'

strpbrk(str1,str2)

like `man strpbrk', but returns an index or -1 instead of a char pointer.

strchr(str1,str2)

like `man strchr', but returns an index or -1 instead of a char pointer.

strrchr(str1,str2)

like `man strrchr', but returns an index or -1 instead of a char pointer.

strstr(str1,str2)

like `man strstr', but returns an index or -1 instead of a char pointer.

strspn(str1,str2)

as `man strspn'

strcspn(str1,str2)

as `man strcspn'

defined(varname)

returns true, if the configuration variable `varname' exists.

String expressions

For manipulation of strings there are the following builtin functions, which all return a new string. These very well may be placed as argument to a numerical function's string argument, but within an `expression' they may be only used together with the `eq' or `ne' operator.

strcat(str1, ,strn)

concatenates any number of strings, the result is a string again.

strsplit(string, expr1, expr2)

cuts off parts of `string', starting at index `expr1' with length of `expr2'. If either `expr1' is < 0 or `expr2' is < 1, an empty string is returned.

strdel(string, expr1, expr2)

deletes parts of `string', starting at index `expr1' with length of `expr2'. If either `expr1' or `expr2' is < 0, nothing is deleted (the original strings is returned).

shell(string)

executes the command in `string' and returns its stdout result in a string. The exit code of executed command is put into $DOSEMU_SHELL_RETURN (value between 0 and 255). You may also call shell() as a standalone statement (hence discarding the returned string), if you only need $DOSEMU_SHELL_RETURN (or not even that). However, to avoid security implications all privilegdes are dropped and executions is under control of c_shell configuration variable. The default is, that it can only be executed from within global.conf.

With these tools you should be able to make your global.conf adapt to any special case, such as different terminal types, different hdimages for different users and/or different host, adapt to different (future) dosemu and/or kernel versions. Here some small examples:

  $whoami = shell("who am i")
  if ( strchr($whoami, "(" ) < 0 )
  else
    if (strstr($whoami, "(:") < 0)
    endif
    if ($TERM eq "xterm")
    else
      if (strstr("linux console", $TERM) < 0)
      else
      endif
    endif
  endif

  if ($DISPLAY ne "")
    if (strsplit($DISPLAY, 0, 1) ne ":")
    endif
  endif

  if ($DOSEMU_REAL_USER eq "alistair")
  endif

  if (strsplit($DOSEMU_HOST, 0, strchr($DOSEMU_HOST,"."))
                                                   eq $DOSEMU_HOST)
  endif

  $DOSEMU_OPTIONS = strdel($DOSEMU_OPTIONS, strchr($DOSEMU_OPTIONS,"g"),1);

`Dry' testing your configuration

It may be usefull to verify, that your *.conf does what you want before starting a real running DOSEMU. For this purpose there is a new commandline option (-h), which just runs the parser, print some useful output, dumps the main configuration structure and then exits. The option has an argument (0,1,2), which sets the amount of parser debug output: 0 = no parser debug, 1 = print loop debugs, 2 = same as 1 plus if_else_endif-stack debug. This feature can be used such as

  $ dos -h0 -O 2>&1 | less

The output of `-h2' looks like

  PUSH 1->2 1 >foreach__yy__<
  PUSH 2->3 1 >if<
  POP 2<-3 0 >endif< -1
  POP 1<-2 1 >done< -1
  PUSH 1->2 1 >foreach__yy__<
  PUSH 2->3 1 >if<
  POP 2<-3 1 >endif< -1
  POP 1<-2 1 >done< -1
      |  | |         +-------`cached' read status (0 = not cached)
      |  | +-----------------`if' or `loop' test result (0 = false = skipped)
      |  +-------------------inner level
      +----------------------outer level (1 = no depth)

There are also some configuration statements, which aren't of any use except for help debugging your *.conf such as

  exprtest ($DOSEMU_VERSION_CODE)   # will just print the result
  warn "content of DOSEMU_VERSION_CODE: ", $DOSEMU_VERSION_CODE

Debug statement

This section is of interest mainly to programmers. This is useful if you are having problems with DOSEMU and you want to enclose debug info when you make bug reports to a member of the DOSEMU development team. Simply set desired flags to "on" or "off", then redirect stderr of DOSEMU to a file using "dos -o debug" to record the debug information if desired. Skip this section if you're only starting to set up.

  debug { config  off   disk    off     warning off     hardware off
        port    off     read    off     general off     IPC      off
        video   off     write   off     xms     off     ems      off
        serial  off     keyb    off     dpmi    off
        printer off     mouse   off     sound   off
  }

Alternatively you may use the same format as -D commandline option (but without the -D in front), look at the dos.1 man page.

  debug "+a-v"     # all messages but video
  debug "+4r"      # default + maximum of PIC debug

or simply (to turn off all debugging)

  debug { off }

Miscellaneous

The HogThreshold value determines how nice Dosemu will be about giving other Linux processes a chance to run. Setting the HogThreshold value to approximately half of you BogoMips value will slightly degrade Dosemu performance, but significantly increase overall system idle time. A zero value runs Dosemu at full tilt.

  HogThreshold 0

Want startup DOSEMU banner messages? Of course :-)

  dosbanner on

Timint is necessary for many programs to work.

  timint on

For "mathco", set this to "on" to enable the coprocessor during DOSEMU. This really only has an effect on kernels prior to 1.0.3.

  mathco on

For "cpu", set this to the CPU you want recognized during DOSEMU.

  cpu 80386

If you have DOSEMU configured to use the 386-emulator, you can enable the emulator via

  cpu emulated

You may ask why we need to emulate a 386 on an 386 ;-) Well, for normal purpose its not needed (and will be slower anyway), but the emulator offers a better way to debug DOS applications, especially DPMI code. Also, we hope that some day we may be able to run DOSEMU on other machines than 386. At the time of writing this, the cpu emulators is very alpha and you should not use it except you are willing to help us. So please, don't even try to report 'bugs' except you have a patch for the bug too.

If you have a pentium, DOSEMU can make use of the pentium cycle counter to do better timing. DOSEMU detects the pentium and will use the RDTSC instruction for get time per default. To disable this feature use

  rdtsc off

Also, to use the pentium cycle counter correctly DOSEMU needs to know the CPU-clock which your chip is running. This per default is calibrated automatically, however, that may be not exact enough. In this case you have to set it yourself via

  cpuspeed 180

or, for values like 166.6666 you may give two numbers such as

  
  cpuspeed 500 3

which will be calculated as 'cpuspeed=500/3'

If you have a PCI board you may allow DOSEMU to access the PCI configuration space by defining the below

  pci on | off

PCI is assumed to be present on CPUs better then a pentium, otherwise the default is 'pci off'

For "bootA"/"bootC", set this to the bootup drive you want to use. It is strongly recommended you start with "bootA" to get DOSEMU going, and during configuration of DOSEMU to recognize hard disks.

  bootA

During compile there will be a symbol map generated, this usually then is ./bin/dosemu.map. You may wnt to save it to an other places and let 'dosdebug' know where to find it:

  dosemumap /var/lib/dosemu/dosemu.map

Normally all debug logging is done _imediately_ (unbuffered). However, when dumping big amounts of logdata, the dynamic behave of DOSEMU may change, hence hiding the real problem (or causing a new one) Using the below switches buffering on and sets the buffer size.

  logbufsize 0x20000

In addition, you may want to limit the file size of the log file, especially when you expect huge amounts of data (such as with -D+e). This can be done via

  logfilesize 0x200000

which (in this case) will limit the size to 2Mbytes. The default setting is a file size of 10Mbytes.

When you want to abort DOSEMU from within a configuration file (because you detected something weird) then do

  abort

  abort "message text"

When you want just to warn the user use the following (the message will get printed to the log file via the debug-flag '+c')

  warn "message text"

When you want to use the CDrom driver and the Linux device is other then /dev/cdrom you may define

  cdrom /dev/xxx

Code page and character set

To select the character set and code page for use with DOSEMU we now (against earlier versions of DOSEMU) have a separate statement:

  charset XXX

ibm

the text is taken whithout translation, it is to the user to load a proper DOS font (cp437.f16, cp850.f16 or cp852.f16 on the console).

latin

the text is processed using cp437->iso-8859-1 translation, so the font used must be iso-8859-1 (eg iso01.f16 on console); which is the default for unix in western languages countries.

latin1

like latin, but using cp850->iso-8859-1 translation (the difference between cp437 and cp850 is that cp437 uses some chars for drawing boxes while cp850 uses them for accentuated letters)

latin2

like latin1 but uses cp852->iso-8859-2 translation, so translates the default DOS charset of eastern european countries to the default unix charset for those countries.

Keyboard settings

For defining the keyboard layouts you are using there is the "keyboard" statement such as

  keyboard {  layout us  .... }

or

  keyboard {  layout us {alt 66=230} ... }

The later modifies the US keyboard layout such that it will allow you to type a character 230 (micro) with right ALT-M.

The same can be done via a "keytable" statement such as

  keytable keyb-user {alt 66=230}

The "keyb-user" is preset with an US layout and is intended to be used as "buffer" for user defined keyboard tables.

The format of the "{}" modification list (either in the "keyboard" or the "keytable" statement) is as follows:

  [submap] key_number = value [,value [,...]]

Given we call the above a "definition" then it may be repeated (blank separated) such as

  definition [definition [...]]

"key_number" is the physical number, that the keybord send to the machine when you hit the key, its the index into the keytable. "value" may be any integer between 0...255, a string, or one of the following keywords for "dead keys" (NOTE: deadkeys have a value below 32, so be carefull).

  dgrave        (dead grave)
  dacute        (dead acute)
  dcircum       (dead circumflex)
  dtilde        (dead tilde)
  dbreve        (dead breve)
  daboved       (dead above dot)
  ddiares       (dead diaresis)
  dabover       (dead above ring)
  ddacute       (dead double acute)
  dcedilla      (dead cedilla)
  dogonek       (dead ogonek)
  dcaron        (dead caron)

After a "key_number =" there may be any number of comma separated values, which will go into the table starting with "key_number", hence all below examples are equivalent

  { 2="1" 3="2" }
  { 2="1","2" }
  { 2="12" }
  { 2=0x31,50 }

"submap" tells in about something about the shift state for which the definition is to use or wether we mean the numpad:

  shift  16="Q"      (means key 16 + SHIFT pressed)
  alt    16="@"      (means key 16 + right ALT pressed (so called AltGr))
  numpad 12=","      (means numpad index 12)

You may even replace the whole table with a comma/blank separated list of values. In order to make it easy for you, you may use dosemu to create such a list. The following statement will dump all current key tables out into a file "kbdtables", which is directly suitable for inclusion into global.conf (hence it follows the syntax):

  keytable dump "kbdtables"

However, don't put this not into your global.conf, because dosemu will exit after generating the tablefile. Instead use the -I commandline option such as

  $ dos -I 'keytable dump "kbdtables"'

After installation of dosemu ("make install") you'll find the current dosemu keytables in /var/lib/dosemu/keymap (and in ./etc/keymap, where they are copied from). These tables are generated via "keytable dump" and split into discrete files, such that you may modify them to fit your needs. You may load them such as

  $ dos -I 'include "keymap/de-latin1"'

(when an include file is starting with "keymap/" it is taken out of /var/lib/dosemu). When there was a keytable previously defined (e.g. in global.conf), they new one will be take anyway and a warning will be printed on stderr.

Anyway, you are not forced to modify or load a keytable, and with the "layout" keyword from the "keyboard" statement, you can specify your country's keyboard layout. The following builtin layouts are implemented:

    finnish           us           dvorak       sf
    finnish-latin1    uk           sg           sf-latin1
    de                dk           sg-latin1    es
    de-latin1         dk-latin1    fr           es-latin1
    be                keyb-no      fr-latin1    po
    it                no-latin1    sw           jp106
    hu                hu-cwi       hu-latin2    keyb-user
    po

The keyb-user is selected by default if the "layout" keyword is omitted, and this in fact is identical to us-layout, as long as it got not overloaded by the "keytable" statement (see above).

The keyword "keybint" allows more accurate of keyboard interrupts, It is a bit unstable, but makes keyboard work better when set to "on".

The keyword "rawkeyboard" allows for accurate keyboard emulation for DOS programs, and is only activated when DOSEMU starts up at the console. It only becomes a problem when DOSEMU prematurely exits with a "Segmentation Fault" fatal error, because the keyboard would have not been reset properly. In that case, you would have to run kbd_mode -a remotely, or use the RESET button. In reality, this should never happen. But if it does, please do report to the dosemu development team, of the problem and detailed circumstances, we're trying our best! If you don't need near complete keyboard emulation (needed by major software package), set it to "off"

recommended:

  keyboard {  layout us  keybint on  rawkeyboard off  }

  keyboard {  layout de-latin1  keybint on  rawkeyboard on  }

If you want DOSEMU feed with keystrokes, that are typed in automagically, then you may define them such as

  keystroke "cd c:\\mysource\r"

You may have any number of 'keystroke' statements, they all will be concatenated.

This feature however doesn't make much sense _here_ in the configuration file, instead together with the commandine option -I you can start dosemu and execute any arbitrary dos command such as

For more details please look at ./doc/README.batch

Ah, but _one_ sensible useage _here_ is to 'pre-strike' that damned F8 that is needed for DOS-7.0, when you don't want to edit the msdos.sys:

 keystroke "\F8;"

Serial stuff

You can specify up to 4 simultaneous serial ports here. If more than one ports have the same IRQ, only one of those ports can be used at the same time. Also, you can specify the com port, base address, irq, and device path! The defaults are:

• COM1 default is base 0x03F8, irq 4, and device /dev/cua0
• COM2 default is base 0x02F8, irq 3, and device /dev/cua1
• COM3 default is base 0x03E8, irq 4, and device /dev/cua2
• COM4 default is base 0x02E8, irq 3, and device /dev/cua3

If the "com" keyword is omitted, the next unused COM port is assigned. Also, remember, these are only how you want the ports to be emulated in DOSEMU. That means what is COM3 on IRQ 5 in real DOS, can become COM1 on IRQ 4 in DOSEMU!

NOTE: You must have /usr/spool/uucp for LCK-file generation ! You may change this path and the lockfile name via the below 'ttylocks' statement.

Also, as an example of defaults, these two lines are functionally equal:

  serial { com 1  mouse }
  serial { com 1  mouse  base 0x03F8  irq 4  device /dev/cua0 }

If you want to use a serial mouse with DOSEMU, the "mouse" keyword should be specified in only one of the serial lines. (For PS/2 mice, it is not necessary, and device path is in mouse line instead)

Use/modify any of the following if you want to support a modem: (or any other serial device.)

  serial { com 1  device /dev/modem }
  serial { com 2  device /dev/modem }
  serial { com 3  device /dev/modem }
  serial { com 4  device /dev/modem }
  serial { com 3  base 0x03E8  irq 5  device /dev/cua2 }

If you are going to load a msdos mouse driver for mouse support use/modify one of the following

  serial { mouse  com 1  device /dev/mouse }
  serial { mouse  com 2  device /dev/mouse }

What type is your mouse? Use one of the following. Use the 'internaldriver' option to try Dosemu internaldriver. Use the 'emulate3buttons' for 3button mice.

  mouse { microsoft }
  mouse { logitech }
  mouse { mmseries }
  mouse { mouseman }
  mouse { hitachi }
  mouse { mousesystems }
  mouse { busmouse }
  mouse { ps2  device /dev/mouse internaldriver emulate3buttons }
  mouse { mousesystems device /dev/mouse internaldriver cleardtr }

For tty locking capabilities:

The serial lines are locked by dosemu via usual lock file technique, which is compatible with most other unix apps (such as mgetty, dip, e.t.c). However, you carefully need to check _where_ those other apps expect the lock files. The most common used (old) place is /usr/spool/uucp, but newer distributions following the FSSTND will have it in /var/lock. The dosemu default one is /usr/spool/uucp. The below defines /var/lock

  ttylocks { directory /var/lock }

Note: you are responsible for ensuring that the directory exists ! If you want to define the lock prefix stub also, use this one

  ttylocks { directory /var/lock namestub LCK.. }

If the lockfile should contain the PID in binary form (instead of ASCII}, you may use the following

  ttylocks { directory /var/lock namestub LCK.. binary }

Networking Support

Turn the following option 'on' if you require IPX/SPX emulation. Therefore, there is no need to load IPX.COM within the DOS session. The following option does not emulate LSL.COM, IPXODI.COM, etc. NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE IPX PROTOCOL ENABLED IN KERNEL !!

  ipxsupport off

Enable Novell 8137->raw 802.3 translation hack in new packet driver.

  pktdriver novell_hack

Terminals

This section applies whenever you run DOSEMU remotely or in an xterm. Color terminal support is now built into DOSEMU. Skip this section for now to use terminal defaults, until you get DOSEMU to work.

There are a number of keywords for the terminal { } configuration line.

color

Enable or disable color terminal support. One of ``on'' (default) or ``off''.

updatefreq

A number indicating the frequency of terminal updates of the screen. The smaller the number, the more frequent. A value of 20 gives a frequency of about one per second, which is very slow. However, more CPU time is given to DOS applications when updates are less frequent. A value of 4 (default) is recommended in most cases, but if you have a fast system or link, you can decrease this to 0.

escchar

A number (ascii code below 32) that specifies the control character used as a prefix character for sending alt, shift, ctrl, and function keycodes. The default value is 30 which is Ctrl-^. So, for example,

  F1 is 'Ctrl-^1', Alt-F7 is 'Ctrl-^s Ctrl-^7'.
  For online help, press 'Ctrl-^h' or 'Ctrl-^?'.

Use the following to enable the IBM character set.

  terminal { charset ibm  color on }

Use this for color xterms or rxvt's with no IBM font, with only 8 colors.

  terminal { charset latin  color on }

Use this for color xterms or rxvt's with IBM font, with only 8 colors.

  terminal { charset ibm  color on }

More detailed line for user configuration:

  terminal { charset latin  updatefreq 4  color on }

X Support settings

If DOSEMU is running in its own X-window (not xterm), you may need to tailor it to your needs. Valid keywords for the X { } config line:

updatefreq

A number indicating the frequency of X updates of the screen. The smaller the number, the more frequent. A value of 20 gives a frequency of about one per second, which is very slow. However, more CPU time is given to DOS applications when updates are less frequent. The default is 8.

display

The X server to use. If this is not specified, dosemu will use the DISPLAY environment variable. (This is the normal case) The default is ":0".

title

What you want dosemu to display in the title bar of its window. The default is "dosemu".

icon_name

Used when the dosemu window is iconified. The default is "dosemu".

keycode

Used to give Xdos access to keycode part of XFree86. The default is off.

NOTE:

• You should _not_ use this when using X remotely (the remote site may have other raw keyboard settings).
• If you use "keycode", you also must define an appropriate keyboard layout (see above).
• If you do not use "keycode" then under X a neutral keyboard layout is forced ( keyboard {layout us} ) regardless of what you have set above.

Anyway, a cleaner way than using "keycode" is to let the X-server fiddle with keyboard translation and customize it via .xmodmaps.

blinkrate

A number which sets the blink rate for the cursor. The default is 8.

font

Used to pick a font other than vga (default). Must be monospaced.

mitshm

Use shared memory extensions. The default is ``on''.

sharecmap

Used to share the colormap with other applications in graphics mode. If not set, a private colormap is used. The default is off.

fixed_aspect

Set fixed aspect for resize the graphics window. One of ``on'' (default) or ``off''.

aspect_43

Always use an aspect ratio of 4:3 for graphics. The default is ``floating''.

lin_filt

Use linear filtering for >15 bpp interpolation. The default is off.

bilin_filt

Use bi-linear filtering for >15 bpp interpolation. The default is off.

mode13fact

A number which sets the initial size factor for video mode 0x13 (320x200). The default is 2.

winsize

A pair of numbers which set the initial width and height of the window to a fixed value. The default is to float.

gamma

Set value for gamma correction, a value of 100 means gamma 1.0. The default is 100.

vgaemu_memsize

Set the size (in Kbytes) of the frame buffer for emulated vga under X. The default is 1024.

lfb

Enable or disable the linear frame buffer in VESA modes. The default is ``on''.

pm_interface

Enable or disable the protected mode interface for VESA modes. The default is ``on''.

mgrab_key

String, name of KeySym name to activate mouse grab. Default is `empty' (no mouse grab). A possible value could be "Home".

vesamode

Define a VESA mode. Two variants are supported: vesamode width height and vesamode width height color_bits. The first adds the specified resolution in all supported color depths (currently 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32 bit).

Recommended X statement:

  X { updatefreq 8 title "DOS in a BOX" icon_name "xdos" }

Video settings ( console only )

!!WARNING!!: A LOT OF THIS VIDEO CODE IS ALPHA! IF YOU ENABLE GRAPHICS ON AN INCOMPATIBLE ADAPTOR, YOU COULD GET A BLANK SCREEN OR MESSY SCREEN EVEN AFTER EXITING DOSEMU. JUST REBOOT (BLINDLY) AND THEN MODIFY CONFIG.

Start with only text video using the following line, to get started. then when DOSEMU is running, you can set up a better video configuration.

  video { vga }                    Use this line, if you are using VGA
  video { cga  console }           Use this line, if you are using CGA
  video { ega  console }           Use this line, if you are using EGA
  video { mda  console }           Use this line, if you are using MDA

Notes for Graphics:

• If your VGA-Bios resides at E000-EFFF, turn off video BIOS shadow for this address range and add the statement vbios_seg 0xe000 to the correct vios-statement, see the example below
• If your VBios size is only 32K you set it with vbios_size 0x8000, you then gain some space for UMB or hardware ram locations.
• Set "allowvideoportaccess on" earlier in this configuration file if DOSEMU won't boot properly, such as hanging with a blank screen, beeping, leaving Linux video in a bad state, or the video card bootup message seems to stick.
• Video BIOS shadowing (in your CMOS setup) at C000-CFFF must be disabled. CAUTION: TURN OFF VIDEO BIOS SHADOWING BEFORE ENABLING GRAPHICS! This is not always necessary, but a word to the wise shall be sufficient.
• If you have a dual-monitor configuration (e.g. MDA as second display), you then may run CAD programs on 2 displays or let play your debugger on the MDA while debugging a graphics program on the VGA (e.g TD -do ). You also may switch to the MDA display by using the DOS command mode mono (mode co80 returns to your normal display). This feature can be enabled by the switch "dualmon" like this:

        video { vga  console  graphics dualmon }
  

  and can be used on a xterm and the console, but of course not, if you have the MDA as your primary display. You also must set USE_DUALMON 1 in include/video.h. NOTE: Make sure no more then one process is using this feature ! ( you will get funny garbage on your MDA display. ) Also, you must NOT have the dualmon-patches for kernel applied ( having the MDA as Linux console )
• If you want to run dosemu in situations when human doesn't sit at console (for instance to run it by cron) and want console option be enabled you should use option forcevtswitch.

             { vga console forcevtswitch }
  

  Without the option dosemu waits for becoming virtual terminal on which dosemu is run active (i.e. user must press Alt-F?). With this option dosemu perform the switch itself. Be careful with this option because with it user sat at console may face with unexpected switch.

It may be necessary to set this to "on" if DOSEMU can't boot up properly on your system when it's set "off" and when graphics are enabled. Note: May interfere with serial ports when using certain video boards.

  allowvideoportaccess on

Any 100% compatible standard VGA card MAY work with this:

  video { vga  console  graphics }

If your VGA-BIOS is at segment E000, this may work for you:

  video { vga  console  graphics  vbios_seg 0xe000 }

Trident SVGA with 1 megabyte on board

  video { vga  console  graphics  chipset trident  memsize 1024 }

Diamond SVGA (not S3 chip)

  video { vga  console  graphics  chipset diamond }

Cirrus SVGA

  video { vga  console  graphics  chipset cirrus }

ET4000 SVGA card with 1 megabyte on board:

  video { vga  console  graphics  chipset et4000  memsize 1024 }

  video { vga  console  graphics  chipset et4000  memsize 1024 vbios_size 0x8000 }

S3-based SVGA video card with 1 megabyte on board:

  video { vga  console  graphics  chipset s3  memsize 1024 }

Avance Logic (ALI) 230x SVGA

  video { vga  console  graphics  chipset avance }

For ATI graphic mode

  ports { 0x1ce 0x1cf 0x238 0x23b 0x23c 0x23f 0x9ae8 0x9ae9 0x9aee 0x9aef }

Matrox millenium:

  video { vga  console  graphics  chipset matrox }

VGA-cards with a WD(Paradise) chip:

  video { vga  console  graphics  chipset wdvga }

Memory settings

These are memory parameters, stated in number of kilobytes. If you get lots of disk swapping while DOSEMU runs, you should reduce these values.

umb_max is a new parameter which tells DOSEMU to be more aggressive about finding upper memory blocks. The default is 'off'.

To be more aggressive about finding XMS UMB blocks use this:

  umb_max on

To be more secure use 'secure on'. If "on", then it disables DPMI access to dosemu code and also disables execution of dosemu supplied 'system' commands, which may execute arbitrary Linux-commands otherwise. The background is, that DPMI clients are allowed to create selectors that span the whole user space, hence may hack into the dosemu code, and (when dosemu runs root or is suid root) can be a security hole. "secure on" closes this hole, though this would very likely also disable some dos4gw games :(. Therfore NOTE: You may not be able to run some DPMI programs, hence, before reporting such a program as 'not running', first try to set 'secure off'.

  secure on                # "on" or "off"

The below enables/disables DPMI and sets the size of DPMI memory.

  dpmi 4086                # DPMI size in K, or "off"

The best solution (security wise), however, is to run dosemu non-suid root under X (which is possible since dosemu-0.97.10). Under X most of the things we would need to run under root privilidges aren't needed, as the X server supports them. And giving DPMI access to non-suid root dosemu is not at all critical. You may forbid some users to use an eventually available suid root binary by setting `nosuidroot' in /etc/dosemu.users.

XMS is enabled by the following statement

  xms 1024                 # XMS size in K,  or "off"

For ems, you now can set the frame to any 16K between 0xc800..0xe000

  ems 1024                 # EMS size in K,  or "off"

  ems { ems_size 1024 ems_frame 0xe000 }

  ems { ems_size 2048 ems_frame 0xd000 }

If you have adapters, which have memory mapped IO, you may map those regions with hardware_ram { .. }. You can only map in entities of 4k, you give the address, not the segment. The below maps 0xc8000..0xc8fff and 0xcc000..0xcffff:

  hardware_ram { 0xc8000 range 0xcc000 0xcffff }

With the below you define the maximum conventional RAM to show apps:

  dosmem 640

IRQ passing

The irqpassing statement accepts IRQ values between 3..15, if using the { .. } syntax each value or range can be prefixed by the keyword use_sigio to monitor the IRQ via SIGIO. If this is missing the IRQ is monitored by SIGALRM.

Use/modify one of the below statements

  irqpassing off    # this disables IRQ monitoring
  irqpassing 15
  irqpassing { 15 }
  irqpassing { use_sigio 15 }
  irqpassing { 10  use_sigio range 3 5 }

Port Access

WARNING: GIVING ACCESS TO PORTS IS BOTH A SECURITY CONCERN AND SOME PORTS ARE DANGEROUS TO USE. PLEASE SKIP THIS SECTION, AND DON'T FIDDLE WITH THIS SECTION UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

These keywords are allowable on a "ports" line.

range addr1 addr2

This allow access to this range of ports

ormask value

The default is 0

andmask value

The default is 0xffff

rdonly|wronly|rdwr

This specifies what kind of access to allow to the ports. The default is "rdwr"

fast

Put port(s) in the ioperm bitmap (only valid for ports below 0x400) An access doesn't trap and isn't logged, but as vm86() isn't interrupted, it's much faster. The default is not fast.

device name

If the ports are registered, open this device to block access. The open() must be successfull or access to the ports will be denied. If you know what you are doing, use /dev/null to fake a device to block

  ports { 0x388 0x389 }   # for SimEarth
  ports { 0x21e 0x22e 0x23e 0x24e 0x25e 0x26e 0x27e 0x28e 0x29e } # for jill

Speaker

These keywords are allowable on the "speaker" line:

native

Enable DOSEMU direct access to the speaker ports.

emulated

Enable simple beeps at the terminal.

off

Disable speaker emulation.

Recommended:

  speaker off

Hard disks

WARNING: DAMAGE MIGHT RESULT TO YOUR HARD DISK (LINUX AND/OR DOS) IF YOU FIDDLE WITH THIS SECTION WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE DOING!

The best way to get started is to start with a hdimage, and set "bootC" and "disk {image "var/lib/dosemu/hdimage.first" }/" in global.conf. To generate this first working and bootable hdimage, you should use "setup-hdimage" in the dosemu root directory. This script extracts your DOS from any native bootable DOS-partition and builts a bootable hdimage. (for experience dosemu users: you need not to fiddle with floppies any more) Keep using the hdimage while you are setting this hard disk configuration up for DOSEMU, and testing by using DIR C: or something like that. Whenever possible, use hdimage, mount your DOS partition under Linux and "lredir" it into dosemu. Look at <@@ref>lredirUsing Lredir, <@@ref>lredirUsing Lredir<@@ref>runasuserRunning as a user, QuickStart etc. on how to use "lredir".

As a last resort, if you want DOSEMU to be able to access a DOS partition, the safer type of access is "partition" access, because "wholedisk" access gives DOSEMU write access to a whole physical disk, including any vulnerable Linux partitions on that drive!

IMPORTANT

You must not have LILO installed on the partition for dosemu to boot off. As of 04/26/94, doublespace and stacker 3.1 will work with wholedisk or partition only access. Stacker 4.0 has been reported to work with wholedisk access.

Please read the documentation in the "doc" subdirectory for info on how to set up access to real hard disk.

These are meanings of the keywords:

image

specifies a hard disk image file.

partition

specifies partition access, with device and partition number.

wholedisk

specifies full access to entire hard drive.

readonly

for read only access. A good idea to set up with.

diskcyl4096

INT13 support for more then 1024 cylinders, bits 6/7 of DH (head) used to build a 12 bit cylinder number.

bootfile

to specify an image of a boot sector to boot from.

Use/modify one (or more) of the folling statements:

  disk { image "/var/lib/dosemu/hdimage" }      # use diskimage file.
  disk { partition "/dev/hda1" readonly }       # 1st partition on 1st IDE.
  disk { partition "/dev/hda1" bootfile "/var/lib/bootsect.dos" }
  disk { partition "/dev/hda6" readonly }       # 6th logical partition.
  disk { partition "/dev/sdb1" readonly }       # 1st partition on 2nd SCSI.
  disk { wholedisk "/dev/hda" }                 # Entire disk drive unit

Recommended:

  disk { image "/var/lib/dosemu/hdimage" }

DOSEMU boot

Use the following option to boot from the specified file, and then once booted, have bootoff execute in autoexec.bat. Thanks Ted :-). Notice it follows a typical floppy spec. To create this file use:

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/var/lib/dosemu/bdisk bs=16k

  bootdisk { heads 2 sectors 18 tracks 80 threeinch file /var/lib/dosemu/bdisk }

Specify extensions for the CONFIG and AUTOEXEC files. If the below are uncommented, the extensions become CONFIG.EMU and AUTOEXEC.EMU. NOTE: this feature may affect file naming even after boot time. If you use MSDOS 6+, you may want to use a CONFIG.SYS menu instead.

  EmuSys EMU
  EmuBat EMU

Floppy disks

This part is fairly easy. Make sure that the first (/dev/fd0) and second (/dev/fd1) floppy drives are of the correct size, "threeinch" and/or "fiveinch". A floppy disk image can be used instead, however.

FOR SAFETY, UNMOUNT ALL FLOPPY DRIVES FROM YOUR FILESYSTEM BEFORE STARTING UP DOSEMU! DAMAGE TO THE FLOPPY MAY RESULT OTHERWISE!

Use/modify one of the below:

  floppy { device /dev/fd0 threeinch }
  floppy { device /dev/fd1 fiveinch }
  floppy { heads 2  sectors 18  tracks 80
           threeinch  file /var/lib/dosemu/diskimage }

If floppy disk speed is very important, uncomment the following line. However, this makes the floppy drive a bit unstable. This is best used if the floppies are write-protected. Use an integer value to set the time between floppy updates.

  FastFloppy 8

Printers

Printer is emulated by piping printer data to a file or via a unix command such as "lpr". Don't bother fiddling with this configuration until you've got DOSEMU up and running already.

NOTE: Printers are assigned to LPT1:, LPT2:, and LPT3: on a one for one basis with each line below. The first printer line is assigned to LPT1:, second to LPT2:, and third to LPT3:. If you do not specify a base port, the emulator will setup the bios to report 0x378, 0x278, and 0x3bc for LPT1:, LPT2:, and LPT3: respectively.

To use standard unix lpr command for printing use this line:

  printer { options "%s"  command "lpr"  timeout 20 }

And for any special options like using pr to format files, add it to the options parameter:

  printer { options "-p %s"  command "lpr"  timeout 10 }     pr format it

To just have your printer output end up in a file, use the following line:

  printer { file "lpt3" }

If you have a DOS application that is looking to access the printer port directly, and uses the bios LPT: setting to find out the port to use, you can modify the base port the bios will report with the following:

  printer { options "%s"  command "lpr"  base 0x3bc }

Be sure to also add a port line to allow the application access to the port:

  ports { device /dev/lp0 0x3bc 0x3bd 0x3be }

NOTE: applications that require this will not interfere with applications that continue to use the standard bios calls. These applications will continue to send the output piped to the file or unix command.

Sound

The sound driver is more or less likely to be broken at the moment.

sb_base

base address of the SB (HEX)

sb_irq

IRQ for the SB

sb_dma

DMA channel for the SB

sb_dsp

Path the sound device

sb_mixer

path to the mixer control

mpu_base

base address for the MPU-401 chip (HEX) (Not Implemented)

Use this to disable sound support even if it is configured in

  sound_emu off

Linux defaults

  sound_emu { sb_base 0x220 sb_irq 5 sb_dma 1 sb_dsp /dev/dsp
               sb_mixer /dev/mixer mpu_base 0x330 }

NetBSD defaults

  sound_emu { sb_base 0x220 sb_irq 5 sb_dma 1 sb_dsp /dev/sound
              sb_mixer /dev/mixer mpu_base 0x330 }

DEXE support

These are the setting for DEXE type DOS application, which are executed by DOSEMU via the -L option. ( for what DEXE is look at ./doc/README.dexe

set the below to force 'secure on', when -L option is used _and_ the user isn't root.

  dexe { secure }

set the below, if you want that a dexe may be allowed to have additional disks. Normally the hdimage containing the DOS app (the .dexe itself) is the only available disk, all other 'disk {}' statement are ignored.

  dexe { allowdisk }

set the below, if you want a DEXE to be forced to 'xdos', when X available. This mainly is intended for beeing included into the configuration of a DEXE file (see mkdexe). e.g. when the application needs graphic it should not run on slang-terminal.

  dexe { forcexdos }

set the below, if you want a DEXE _only_ running on X (because it otherwise would not run)

  dexe { xdosonly }