From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 18:20:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA03693 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:20:50 -0700 Received: from irbs.com (irbs.com [199.182.75.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA03672 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:20:43 -0700 Received: (from jc@localhost) by irbs.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA09957 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:20:24 -0400 From: John Capo Message-Id: <199504250120.VAA09957@irbs.com> Subject: Re: DOS emulator To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:20:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "Steven Erickson" at Apr 24, 95 08:41:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 685 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steven Erickson writes: > > On Mon, 24 Apr 1995, John Selph wrote: > > > > Is there a DOS emulator for FreeBSD? (Not Windows) Either > > commercial or non-commercial ok. > > > > Yes they do but I wouldn't take it. I rather use DOS/FreeBSD paritions. > If you have a machine with a DOS partiton, that is a viable alternative. OTOH, if you just have a *nix box and you need DOS for something, like running the self extracting .EXE format that is so popular with DOS, the very same format the IRS chose for storing tax forms on their web site, then pcemu may just work fine. Took me 5 minutes to build it, uncompress my *&@#!$ tax form and get on with my life. -- John Capo