From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 14: 7:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89FB237B401 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-234-119.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.234.119]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA16815; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:07:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011002160812.03f12c60@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:08:12 -0500 To: "Andrew C. Hornback" , , From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: RE: FREEbsd questions In-Reply-To: <003501c14b81$f5baa9c0$6600000a@columbia> References: <200110022030.NAA29409@aztec2.asu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 ....or dual boot At 04:36 PM 10.2.2001 -0400, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: >> -----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 > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message