From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 13:38:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B911237B401 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from columbia ([12.93.212.177]) by mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20011002203806.BFDA21828.mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net@columbia>; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 20:38:06 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: , Subject: RE: FREEbsd questions Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:36:48 -0400 Message-ID: <003501c14b81$f5baa9c0$6600000a@columbia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <200110022030.NAA29409@aztec2.asu.edu> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > mother@aztec.asu.edu > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:30 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FREEbsd questions > > I have many DOS apps and utilities that I like and use. > Will they work under FREEbsd? Not exactly. You might be able to use an emulator to make them work correctly, but FreeBSD is generally not a good platform for running DOS programs. > What in DOS doesn't work or is problematic under FREEbsd? That's for someone else to answer, as I don't have any experience with trying to shoehorn DOS binaries onto a FreeBSD machine. > Will my WIN3.1 apps work? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say... no. But, it may be possible when you're using WINE. This isn't somewhere that I'd been before, and I don't think it's one of the more recommended directions to go, considering that you have to emulate a broken OS and then a broken shell and then try to use applications written for both. Personally, if you're dead set on running DOS and Win 3.1 stuff, why not get a little 386-33 with 8 megs of RAM and be done with it? Those machines are generally thrown away anymore. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message