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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:26:22 +0100
From:      Martin Welk <mw@theatre.sax.de>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <a.ventu@flashnet.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DOS emulator
Message-ID:  <19991217222622.D46333@theatre.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199912171920.UAA22746@mbox3.flashnet.it>; from a.ventu@flashnet.it on Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 08:20:18PM %2B0000
References:  <199912171920.UAA22746@mbox3.flashnet.it>

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On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 08:20:18PM +0000, Andrea Venturoli wrote:

> I'd like to run a small DOS app on a FreeBSD box. In the handbook it says this
> support exists (although it is/was experimental). How do I go? Where do I find
> it?

The command is doscmd, and it can be used to run a DOS binary at the
command line, open a (BIOS simulation) X window or even boot DOS from
a disk image. This is documented in doscmd(1).

Furthermore, you need to build a custom kernel with the option VM86 to
make the kernel support the virtual machine mode of the x86 (with x >=3 )
CPUs.

Regards,

Martin
-- 
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