dosemu (BAD TYPO - WARNING)

Tom Cavin tec at usa1.com
Mon Oct 2 11:36:55 EDT 1995


On Mon, 2 Oct 1995, Dan Demus wrote:

>    I'm running dosemu 0.60.3.   When I access Quicken, it treats me as a new 
>    account.  My guess is that Quicken somehow knows that its regular location 
>    is in my c:\quicken directory and that when accessed by dosemu it is in the 
>    d:\dos\quicken directory.  Is this in fact the reason for the problem?
> 
>    The dosemu documentation indicates that lredir can make d: into the dosemu 
>    c: directory.  Is this the case?  If so, won't I still have a problem 
>    because the dosemu path is \dos\quicken instead of \quicken?
> 
>    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> As root, just do
> 	# ln -s /dos/quicken /

NO! DON'T DO THIS!

The command as given will stop your system from working.  It will prevent 
access to any commands or directories other than the stuff in 
/dos/quicken.  At the very least, this would cause a lot of confusion.

I think the command that was intended was:

	ln -s /dos/quicken /quicken

The difference is that you won't lose the use of the rest of your 
system.  Please be very careful in typing it in, since if you symbolicly 
link your root to another directory, you will have to reboot your system 
with a maintenance disk to fix it.

-- 
Tom Cavin
tec at usa1.com





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