John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us> writes:

> 
> When I try to run doscmd-19960502 with an MS-DOS 6.2 boot diskette, I
> get either:
> 	% doscmd
> 	doscmd: fatal error int16 func 0x1 only supported in X mode
> or
> 	% doscmd -X
> 	/dev/vga: Permission denied
> 	Exit 1
> or, if I chown /dev/ttyv0 to me, I get:
> 	% doscmd -X
> 	mmap: Invalid argument
> 
> It looks as if the console_init() routine wants to be able to map the
> console video?  Does this only work with a pccons console?

It's not clear to me why you think `-X' does anything useful.  If you
look in the man page, you'll see that `-x' is the option to run in an
X window.  (`-X' is for testing purposes only, and does something
completely different.)