From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 20:21:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8771337B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c3po.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1618543E3B for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcglk@artlogix.com) Received: from ralf.artlogix.com.artlogix.com (ralf.artlogix.com [192.168.0.4]) by c3po.artlogix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DAD1A97D; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:22:18 -0700 (PDT) To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need some advice on a freebsd solution References: <20020823022342.74948.qmail@web20101.mail.yahoo.com> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 22 Aug 2002 20:21:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20020823022342.74948.qmail@web20101.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <86n0reclai.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 55 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) 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 Bsd Neophyte 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message