From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 5:36: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7FC414F4C for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 05:35:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs10.alcatel.fr (mailhub2.alcatel.fr [155.132.188.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id OAA10469; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:29:05 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs10.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id OAA24305; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:32:18 +0100 (MET) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id C125684F.004A9EF3 ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:35:03 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL To: Cliff Rowley Cc: Tim Tsai , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:33:12 +0100 Subject: Re: DOS? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Beware of getting a TCP/IP stack working in your "doscmd" window (BTW, I've only seen it running under Xfree86). I had thought of transfering a "development environment" running here under DOS, but I stopped when I saw I had to use a networking stack from under DOS (I still don't know if it is at all possible to "rsh " from the DOS window to the underlying FreeBSD). TfH Cliff Rowley on 22/12/99 13:08:29 To: Tim Tsai cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG(bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL) Subject: Re: DOS? > You might want to try the recent vmware port to FreeBSD which can already > boot NT. I forgot to mention, I'm not using XFree86 on this box. It's only got a 13" monitor :\ > As somebody who used to work on embedded systems (some of which were DOS > based), I feel you are wasting time with a software emulation solution. > I would strongly recommend putting together a cheap DOS only system and > a kvm (keyboard/video/mouse) switch and simply run both simultaneously. > If management has any objections simply point out the lost in productivity > of you having to fool with this stuff. Unfortunately, sometimes it's hard > to get the beancounters to understand things like this. Yes, very much so. Sometimes it's hard to keep talking to a brick wall. It too me long enough to get them to let me have a machine to run FreeBSD on for our cvs source control - just had to get rid of microsoft snailsafe. I work from home, so I dont have access to a lot of hardware, so putting another machine together is not a good option right now. I'll try doscmd, and see how I go, but I'm not too hopeful... It really does bug me that some developers develop for just linux :( Thanks Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message