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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 14:01:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>
To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: Report on DOSCMD
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:

> 1) Being able to run pcemu-like apps without booting.
> 2) Being able to run dosemu-like (32-bits) apps when booting.
> For VM86:
> 1) Being able to run Minix-386 under VM86 (it runs in protected mode).

[I'm assuming that last 1 is a 3]

  My own wish list is basically only one item -- running Watcom's compiler
and linker. It constantly annoys me to have to do things like makefiles in
DOS. (pipelines are a joke and that limit of 128 chars on a command line
is very disabling)
  If I can run BSD makefiles and unix utlilities such as cvs (for example)
and compile with Watcom, I will be a very happy camper. 

> 
> That would be a "super-emulator" :-)
> 
> regards,
> 
> Pedro.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 5 May 1997, Jonathan Mini wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 5 May 1997, Jonathan Mini wrote:
> > 
> > Heh. This is what I get for writing email in a public lab -- I never
> > mention ed the point. Which was that those errors are "proper" -- they
> > should be there, since the service being probed isn't there. Unless doscmd
> > become some sort of super-emulator that emulates every strange sort of
> > protocol ever outdated or obseleted, (got I hope not, some of them were
> > nasty) we will always see errors like that.
> > 
> > > On Mon, 5 May 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> > > 
> > > Interestingly enough, most of those "unknown interrupts" are the programs
> > > probing for services that doscmd does not support.
> > >   Querying for services in DOS is not a polite process, and the
> > > application expects an error like that so it assumes the service isn't
> > > avialable. =)
> > > 
> > > > Howdy,
> > > > The doscmd is great, I stood up all day testing all the DOS 5.0 programs
> > > > I could find. I'm attaching my report, if you guys need more detailed
> > > > debugging please tell me and I'll help as I can.
> > > > The OpenDOS source code is also available at:
> > > > http://www.caldera.co.uk/
> > > > 
> > > > best regards,
> > > > 
> > > > 	Pedro.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org)
> > > 
> > > ... Desolation ... Despair ... Plastic Forks ...
> > > 
> > 
> > Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org)
> > 
> > ... Desolation ... Despair ... Plastic Forks ...
> > 
> > 
> 

Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org)

... Desolation ... Despair ... Plastic Forks ...