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Subject: Re: can FreeBSD run dos - whoops
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:44:31 -0400, Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:40:45 +0200, christian serb 
> <christian.serb@web.de> wrote:
>
>>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:51:50AM -0500, fred wrote:
>>> > I am new to different OS's .
>>> > Can this Os run Wordperfect 5.1 for dos???
>>>
>>> You can use vmware2 (version 3 works only for FreeBSD 5.x) to run a
>>> vertual machine. This way you could run your old programs.
>
>> i've coincidentally found that:
>>
>> Xdos is available at 1. sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/Incoming (will 
>> probably be moved to
>> /pub/Linux/ALPHA/dosemu )
>>
>> source:
>> http://groups.google.de/groups?q=xdos&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
>> 8&newwindow=1&selm=2ji219%24qkv%40klaava.Helsinki.FI&rnum=1
>
> I believe xdos/dosemu requires an actual DOS partition on the machine 
> (someone please let me know if that's incorrect).  So again, the point 
> would be, if you are going to install DOS, why not just run WordPerfect 
>  from it?

[Sound of palm contacting forehead, remind self once again to be more 
careful in future.]

Sorry, xdos/dosemu uses DOS installed to a disk image that lives in a 
directory, by default /usr/local/lib/dosemu.

Jud