Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:16:20 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: mother@aztec.asu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FREEbsd questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110022102500.4809-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <200110022030.NAA29409@aztec2.asu.edu>
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mother@aztec.asu.edu wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > I have many DOS apps and utilities that I like and use. Will they > work under FREEbsd? Hi Mike, I drive a Chevrolet Corsica. There is no guarantee that parts from the SAME MODEL of car from past or future years will work in my 1990. There is almost ZERO probability that parts that I like and use from another manufacturer's car would work in my car. Perhaps the most skilled of mechanics (and engineers) could, in a pinch, weld, hammer, curse and swear enough to make SOME parts work with SOME success, but you wouldn't expect everything to be cross compatible, would you? More specifically, FreeBSD is not a DOS OS. MS-DOS (Disk Operating System) and its various compatible competitors is a completetely different operating platform from UNIX and FreeBSD. Win 3.1 is just MS-DOS with an add-on bundled graphical window manager. Some DOS apps will work with the 'doscmd' utility under emulation, but, in general, anything requiring direct graphics, or using weird soft DOS interrupts will not work. > What in DOS doesn't work or is problematic under FREEbsd? > > Will my WIN3.1 apps work? > > Thankyou, > Mike Sheets Hope this helps, - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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