Try something newer than 0.63.

Of course he means some CVS build. Search the forum for info.

Hi, thanks for the tip. I followed the links to the project's sourceforge web page and followed the instructions there for logging into anonymous cvs. http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=52551

I have used anonymous cvs before to grab sourceforge projects files, but this is my first time attempting to get the dosbox source.

1$  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dosbox login
2Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/dosbox
3CVS password:
4cvs [login aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

When I go to the file download page at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=52551
it looks as though v0.63 is the latest.

I looked at the list of patches and found this patch:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func … 551&atid=467234

I'll give this a try, maybe I can get Telix to work by passing "-telnet" to dosbox from the command line. But I still need the source. I can get the 0.63 source from Debian using apt-get, but is there another way to grab the latest source from the sourceforge cvs repository?

Thanks!

Jim

I sometimes have to try multiple times to access the sourceforge repository.

Thanks! I tried cvs a few more times and was finally able to log in. I fetched down the source and compiled. It took a me all of half an hour to figure out the new settings, only because I didn't think to change the listening port. 😦 I kept getting a seg fault error saying "MODEM:Can't open listen port: Couldn't bind to local port". (yeah, that should have been my first clue 😊 ) Anyways, I did some searches on this forum to make sure I was setting the serial1 correctly, and then I decided to try a different port. I set the port to 5100 and dosbox runs perfectly, and telix sees a modem, and I am now logged in to a bbs!

Thank you everyone who responded.

Here is the serial section of my .dosboxrc config file in case anyone else needs it:

1[bios]
2# serial1-4 -- set type of device connected to com port.
3#              Can be disabled, dummy, modem, directserial.
4#              Additional parameters must be in the same line in the form
5#              parameter:value. Parameters for all types are irq, startbp
6#              stopbits, parity (all optional).
7#              for directserial: realport (required).
8#              for modem: listenport (optional).
9
10serial1=modem listenport:5100
11serial2=dummy
12serial3=disabled
13serial4=disabled

Thanks again!

Jim

AFAIK ports < 1024 can only be used with root access on Linux.