From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 19: 5:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B0937BA4B for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:05:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA58487; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:05:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:05:36 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dos Emulator Message-ID: <20000316210536.A58002@dan.emsphone.com> References: <87r9dae1vg.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.5i In-Reply-To: <87r9dae1vg.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>; from "Arcady Genkin" on Thu Mar 16 22:01:23 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 16), Arcady Genkin said: > Jaime Kikpole writes: > > > You could try bochs or VMWare. The former is in the ports > > collection and the latter would need to be purchased. They both > > create a virtual computer within which you could run > > PC-DOS/Free-DOS/MS-DOS. > > I, too, am looking for a DOS emulator. However, both of the mentioned > above appear to depend on XFree. Is there anything I can use on a > machine w/o X installed? Unfortunately, no. You can try /usr/bin/doscmd (it'll run under X or on the console), but if your program makes any video-related calls, it'll complain and ask to be run in X as well. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message