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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:05:36 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dos Emulator
Message-ID:  <20000316210536.A58002@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <87r9dae1vg.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>; from "Arcady Genkin" on Thu Mar 16 22:01:23 GMT 2000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003162129060.45968-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> <87r9dae1vg.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>

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In the last episode (Mar 16), Arcady Genkin said:
> Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> 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


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