[BRLTTY] BRLTTY under real Dos

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Wed May 3 10:01:42 EDT 2006


Lars Bjørndal, le Wed 03 May 2006 15:59:03 +0200, a écrit :
> Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:
> 
> > Are you asking if it's possible to build brltty for the DOS operating system? I
> > suppose that it probably is, but I can also see a few potential problems. I
> > don't have a spare machine to do any experimentation in that area, though. Do
> > you know if dosemu on Linux provides a good enough emulation? If not, do you
> > know of any other application which does? Would you consider a brltty built
> > with djgpp acceptable or not?
> 
> I think it's possible to use Dosemu while building, but I'm not sure
> if you can test the exe file because of problems with accessing the
> com port natively enough.

BIOS functions should work fine in dosemu. Even i/o registers should
work fine.

Samuel


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