Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:33:12 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com> Cc: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOS? Message-ID: <C125684F.004A7452.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr>
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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 <dozprompt@onsea.com> on 22/12/99 13:08:29
To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
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
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