From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Sep 1 07:01:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-emulation Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA27201 for emulation-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 07:01:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA27192 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 07:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA12394 for emulation@freebsd.org; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 23:31:46 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199609011401.XAA12394@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Latest DOS emulator now available. To: emulation@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 23:31:46 +0930 (CST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The current state of play with the 'doscmd' DOS emulator for FreeBSD is now available for FTP as ftp://genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au/pub/doscmd/doscmd_fbsd-960901.tar.gz This is the first version based on the substantial changes by John Kohl &c. to the NetBSD incarnation of 'doscmd'. Future versions will complete the BSD/OS support (omitted by the NetBSD people), as well as covering the likely move of FreeBSD to a proper VM86 mode. At this point in time, the emulator is known to load and run trivial DOS programs, however there appear to be a number of significant problems that are beyond our (that's me and Sean) ability to track down. It is believed that these problems are related to the FreeBSD port rather than the emulator in general. We could do with the help of a number of DOS-competent programmers who are willing to produce small test programs to verify the operation of the basic DOS functions. The kernel patches to provide support for doscmd are small and are available for 2.1.5-RELEASE (and thus -STABLE) as well as -current, and we would be more than happy to provide assistance in bootstrapping potential helpers along. We're not looking for you to fix our problems, just tell us where they are 8) Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[