DOS question ?????

m1ke · 10-24-2001, 05:57 AM

It may sound silly what I want to ask ,... but ... can I run a DOS program from LINUX ??? and if yes how!!
(DOS means clasic MS-DOS or similar)

unSpawn · 10-24-2001, 07:07 AM

well, theres the std. Linux dos-emu package, but I haven't (needed) to play with it.

m1ke · 10-24-2001, 07:18 AM

If you Know the name or anything Please is urgent!!!!
(If you give me a name or URL to search it would be great to!!)

Ge0ph · 10-24-2001, 07:58 AM

Win4Lin will allow you to do this.

http://netraverse.com/

m1ke · 10-24-2001, 08:44 AM

Only win4lin??? can I do it with the VMWare (Which it happens to have)??

m1ke · 10-24-2001, 08:48 AM

Ah!! and before I forgot it Can I use either from a terminal window

acid_kewpie · 10-24-2001, 09:14 AM

to run a dos program, use dosemu. simple as that. it'll be on your distro cd's

win4lin cost LOTS of money, and i'd guess VMware is WAY WAY WAY over the top for a dos program. VMware creates an entire 'virtual machine' inside linux with then can boot windows, but that's usign a sledghammer to crack isajera's nuts (Walnuts of course... I hear she likes them...)

I believe that dosemu is extremely good at running basic dos programs, something wine or such like can struggle with, cos it's not directly aimed at it.

m1ke · 10-24-2001, 09:52 AM

Thanks a lot men !! Realy you saved my life here and the DOS program that I will try to run is not so easy but Thanks again!!!

isajera · 10-24-2001, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie
...entire 'virtual machine' inside linux with then can boot windows, but that's usign a sledghammer to crack isajera's nuts.

...i'm sensing some latent hostility here, acid

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acid_kewpie · 10-24-2001, 03:14 PM

hehe, wondered if you'd spot that.. you really do spend far too much time here...

isajera · 10-24-2001, 03:21 PM

me? correct me if i'm wrong, but when i checked yesterday, you had over thirty posts less than me. now you're like two behind me.

besides... i'm an unemployed geek. i reserve the right to go flaky every once in a while, and as long as nobody is standing to close to me at the time, no one gets hurt

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trickykid · 10-24-2001, 03:47 PM

you two are funny.. i think i come here most often sometimes just to see both of you bicker at one another...
but i think all three of us spend way too much time here.. like isajera, i am unemployed right now too, i wouldn't go as far to call myself a geek though..

... but i just came up with the money to get back into school to get my sun certs for solaris.. exciting.. no more boredom soon starting next month for me...

Citizen Bleys · 10-25-2001, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by isajera
...no one gets hurt .

You call getting your nuts cracked with a sledgehammer "not hurt"? Wow.

isajera · 10-26-2001, 01:15 AM

well.. i don't mean to brag or anything... but...

anyway... i think that's enough off-topic posts for one thread...