gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x5739e100.hantslug.org.uk.12888': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Tue Feb 6 21:55:46 2007 GMT
gpg: using DSA key B2C27BC21C335860
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:44:34PM +0000, John Hunt wrote:
> The problems trying to run it:
> - It hangs (causes the windows dos emulator thing to crash!) on
> startup when running 'natively' under XP
> - It works great under qemu, but I need to be able to print! qemu for
> windows doesn't have parallel port 'passthrough', which is a
> requirement (or some easy method of printing).
> - Strange division errors trying to run on vmware when starting the fw
> program...very weird!
Probably a timing loop. That's the usual cause of a divide-by-zero
error in an old application.
> - Couldn't get it to work on virtualbox...although I don't think
> virtualbox offers parallel support any way.
> - Not tried dosbox yet, but once again, the parallel support looks flakey.
>
> I'm not really that clued up on running old apps on windows, so
> there's perhaps there's something I could there.
>
> When the program runs natively, it requires EMM386.EXE and all that
> kind of stuff to be invoked first so that it can access high memory.
>
> It's the printing bit that's the trick really. The ideal solution
> would probably involve getting it to run natively on XP, but I'm not
> sure that's possible. I'm no DOS/Win guru though!
>
> Any pointers/handy programs/advice would be greatly appreciated and
> would put a smile on an old man's face!
Is there no hope for finding a replacement application? Running DOS
apps these days is getting increasingly difficult, as emulations fail
to deal with things like timing loops.
Hugo.
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