<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Hello Chris,</div><div dir="auto">I have found a sweetheart software in the pile of MS-DOS downloads, I am glad you asked.</div>Dp26 is a nice database program which will give you a drop down menu for each panel. That beats squinting at thumbnails, testing postman routes (which I hate the most), or just plain trying to retrace your steps through mongo or mySQL.<div dir="auto">You can launch your database dropdown too as DOSbox itself is allegedly scriptable, which I have not tested yet.<div dir="auto">Presently I have completely locked myself out and am in the process of regaining control of my system; but now I've stopped. In /var/log/messages I found someone reserving IP addresses and moving directories. It is a terrible mess.</div><div dir="auto">Many sources say my permissions and /etc/shadow are correct. My new user accessed the bash shell. But that is when I found further evidence. I can't say I trust my installation at this point.</div><div dir="auto">About MS-DOS, would you agree there is something to say for entertainment? Windows203 works just fine (windows3.1 does not), soundblaster emulation is fine, wide-screen full-screen is beautiful, Doom-era games are heart stopping, pixelization is somehow minimized, it offers borlands TurboC, and can be configured to emulate various machines, drives, and clock speeds; on the very low end of entertainment (as I suggest you really should build launcher button dp26 databases for your pdf's, images, videos, etc...) DOSbox audibly looks for a dial tone (duh) and occupies a single core completely.</div><div dir="auto">On the dp26 side of things: what is really so nice about this 2004 software is that in requiring indexed unique fields it will allow non-unique fields!</div><div dir="auto">Now back to lynching my way up to burning a new live disc, as my live discs have vanished.</div><div dir="auto">Jonathan Engwall</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 7, 2019, 9:24 PM Chris Samuel <<a href="mailto:chris@csamuel.org">chris@csamuel.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi John,<br>
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On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 5:22:14 PM PST Jonathan Engwall wrote:<br>
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> Yesterday I raised DosBox cpu emulation to nearly 600 megahertz with frame<br>
> skipping at 10, and found DosBox still useable. Can this cpu emulation be<br>
> verified somehow?<br>
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I'm curious & have to know - what are you using DosBox for on your cluster?<br>
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It's not unheard of, over a decade ago when I was at VPAC in Melbourne we <br>
installed Wine on our clusters so that a group could run the Windows command <br>
line code "LatentGold" on our x86 Linux clusters. Apparently worked a treat!<br>
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All the best,<br>
Chris<br>
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Chris Samuel : <a href="http://www.csamuel.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.csamuel.org/</a> : Berkeley, CA, USA<br>
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