Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:24:48 +1100 From: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running older DOS console programs with bochs or dosbox Message-ID: <20040213042448.GA12554@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <20040213042014.GA51726@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <20040212191711.GB90721@prometheusresearch.com> <20040212200615.GA216@gvr.gvr.org> <20040212234325.GA53813@prometheusresearch.com> <20040213042014.GA51726@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:20:14AM +0200, John Hay wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:43:25PM -0500, Clark C. Evans wrote: > > I'm trying to get a DOS emulator to work under FreeBSD, the archive > > was provided as an example of what I'm trying ton run. I was not > > struggling with unziping this archive. Does anyone have any paths > > I should be trying to get an emulator to work? > > Have you tried doscmd that comes with FreeBSD? I normally recompile it > after X is installed because it works a lot better for me in its own > X window using the fonts in /usr/libdata/doscmd/fonts/ > > It works good enough for me to run the old topspeed C v3 compiler > that creates 16 bit 8086 code. Good for embedded 80186 stuff. :-) Another approach that might not work for the OP, but which I use a fair bit is to use wine to run win32 command-line tools. Works very nicely, and a few wrapper scripts mean that you can run assemblers and linkers and the like from within BSD make files. I don't think that wine does pure DOS stuff, though. -- Andrew
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