I am trying to get DOSEMU working on a door program, even a sample that I
wrote in Pascal, but I am getting this error when I select the door from the menu:

odd environment, you don't have $HOME, giving up

It appears rapidly and goes away as the door menu clears the screen before loading (had to use scrollback buffer to read it)

Google wasn't my friend on this...

Where do I define $HOME and what path should I use? /mystic/doors ?
Running Ubuntu 16.10, DOSEMU 1.4.0.8

It's the latest version in the repository, I did the usual
apt-get install dosemu

Thanks!

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I am trying to get DOSEMU working on a door program, even a sample that I wrote in Pascal, but I am getting this error when I select the door from the menu:

odd environment, you don't have $HOME, giving up

$HOME should be an enviroment variable in linux. It defines where your home
directory is. For example /home/scott

Do you have a home directory for your account? what happens when you do
cd ~ ?

Where do I define $HOME and what path should I use? /mystic/doors ?

If you need to change your home directory, it can be done with usermod
ex sudo usermod -d /home/scott scott

Scott Miller
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If you need to change your home directory, it can be done with usermod
ex sudo usermod -d /home/scott scott

I'm running MIS with a user called "mystic" which could be the problem, I
don't think home was created since I never logged in as that user, I will try usermod and see what happens.

I'm still new to Linux, only been using it for a year, mainly Ubuntu server
at work for running a TV with a custom dashboard and some internal Apache sites. :)

Thanks! I'm going to go give it a try.
-Ian

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Well, the path was already set but I made a little breakthrough, I used MIS2 instead of MIS and I got better results. Still didn't work, but DOSEMU
started to load.

I'll keep trying. Thanks!

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it wrote to quickshot <=-

I'm running MIS with a user called "mystic" which could be the problem,
I don't think home was created since I never logged in as that user, I will try usermod and see what happens.

The $HOME is always created, if you use the standard Linux utilities to create new users. I'm sure you'll find there's a /home/mystic directory on your system (as there is on mine, since I also run under user mystic.

I'm still new to Linux, only been using it for a year, mainly Ubuntu server at work for running a TV with a custom dashboard and some
internal Apache sites. :)

Enjoy, once you're comfortable with Linux, you won't want to go back. I've been using it since 1995. :)


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it wrote to quickshot <=-

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Well, the path was already set but I made a little breakthrough, I used MIS2 instead of MIS and I got better results. Still didn't work, but DOSEMU started to load.

That's a start. I can't help with the DOSEmu side of things, as I run on a Pi (which doesn't support DOSemu).


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The $HOME is always created, if you use the standard Linux utilities to create new users. I'm sure you'll find there's a /home/mystic directory on your system (as there is on mine, since I also run under user mystic.

Actually the standered useradd tool doesn't automatically create the home directory unless you specify -m

Many distributions ship with an adduser script that prompts for info that
does automatically create the home directory, but it's not really
standard.

Andrew


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