From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Jun 14 09:49:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25847 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 09:49:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles347.castles.com [208.214.167.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25842 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 09:49:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA05679; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 08:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806141544.IAA05679@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Andrew cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOS, Serial ports and no X In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jun 1998 02:09:16 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 08:44:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Just wondering what my best options would be if I needed to run a DOS > program under FreeBSD. It needs to access the a serial port. The smaller it > is the better as I hope to fit it on a flopy disk. Are there nay that can > run with no GUI? Even no screen I/O is fine. doscmd looks to be promissing > if it supports serial. Unfortunately the READMe dosnt seem to have been > updated for a while so I'm not sure and I dont have a 3.0 current box to > try it on. If it does I'll get one :-) So far, it sounds like you'd be better off just running it under DOS to begin with. What part does FreeBSD play in actually helping you out here? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message