From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Aug 31 19:22:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA00426 for emulation-outgoing; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 19:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00421 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 19:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (lot.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [203.20.121.21]) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA19644 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:51:57 +0930 (CST) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00299; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:47:44 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709010217.LAA00299@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Pedro Giffuni S," cc: Mike Smith , emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DOSemu Alterer Novices Guide and technical guide In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Aug 1997 14:10:19 MST." <3409DDBB.4C96@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 11:47:42 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I think what they are trying to do now, from what Pat Villani shared, is > embed the C-kernel in order not to require redirector. Perhaps something > like doscmd does so that you don't need to boot. Huh? This isn't the problem so much as DOS-C doesn't support the concept of anything other than block-addressed media. You can't tell it about a drive that doesn't exist as a BIOS device, so you can't catch file operations on such a device (because it doesn't exist). The DOS emulation that doscmd does is at a *much* higher level. "embedding" a DOS kernel wouldn't help much there at all - you'd just about have to gut it completely to make it worthwhile. mike