Date: 22 Aug 2002 20:21:25 -0700 From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need some advice on a freebsd solution Message-ID: <86n0reclai.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> In-Reply-To: <20020823022342.74948.qmail@web20101.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020823022342.74948.qmail@web20101.mail.yahoo.com>
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Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> writes:
| you're the second person who's suggested bochs. i'm doing some reading on
| it... however, the documentation could use a little more detail, at least for
| me with more extensive examples.
Lordy yes, the documentation could use a lot of work. Fortunately, it's not
especially hard to set up.
| is there some special scripting that will be needed to terminate the SSH
| session when the client exits from the DOS application?
Your .login file would probably have:
[bochs stuff]
logout
That'd be it.
Not the most secure thing in the world, but it'll work.
| hmmm... see, i always thought that bochs would be a total dos emulator.
Most emulators of this sort are *hardware* emulators. Still need the software
to go with it.
| any dos will do right?
Yeah. I imagine finding a copy of MSDOS 6.22 won't be too hard.
| as for graphics... can you please define dos graphics? does this mean ASCI
| graphics...
Well, at least those funny above-127 extended ASCII characters, or any sort of
graphics (as in pictures). Might have problems doing that over something like
PuTTY.
| this dos application runs as a menu system... does this count as a graphical
| interface?
Hopefully not. :)
| does bochs have a newsgroup as effictive as this one incase i come into
| problems?
Well, I don't know about their effectiveness, but they have a bochs-announce,
bochs-developers, and bochs-cvs lists:
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/mailinglists.html
| this can be done... i was thinking of a system with at least 512mb and a
| 30gb drive...
That should do it. Assuming a simple DOS program and 20MB disks, 100 users
will use around 300MB of RAM and 2GB of diskspace.
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