Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:21:54 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: scott mcclellan <rockabyeinn@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new to os Message-ID: <20110819012154.3c9e76aa.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1313705889.77615.YahooMailNeo@web45712.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <1313705889.77615.YahooMailNeo@web45712.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT), scott mcclellan wrote: > I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or > maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Pick FreeBSD as an OS, it will be a benefit for your UNIX skills and your productivity, as well as for your opinion about learning in general. :-) > Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to > gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past > for me 30 years - on a TRS-80). I know remember extremely > little of OS vernacular. Oh you mean _that_ DOS, not the real DOS which is much older than 30 years, even older than me! :-) Furthermore, I always thought the TRS-80 ran CP/M, not DOS, but I could be wrong as I (1st) didn't do any research on it (first sin!) and (2nd) don't own one so I could check. > Am I biting off more than I can chew, or is there a OS > commands for dummies out there, or does FreeBSD have such a > critter that one can go through. FreeBSD allows you to run PC emulators that you can install and run DOS on. Furthermore, there's the doscmd port. Have a look at the content of /usr/ports/emulators and see what fits your needs. The traditional command line interpreters in DOS, e. g. COMMAND.COM, as well as the binaries itself give you some help. A system with better documentation is Norton's NDOS, which has also a more flexible command line interpreter, still being fully compatible. There are even free DOS operating systems that you can run by a means that FreeBSD provides as a "host OS". > I'll pour through the FAQ and got hrough the online manuals > for now. But it all seems greek. Can someone point me in a > diresction to degreek this stuff for me. If you can be more specific, using a more precise question? At this point, it's mostly guess work, at least to me. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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