On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Antony Gordon wrote:
I would advise you to go the route of MSCDEX and use the network
redirector interface. You may want to read Chapter 8 of Undocumented
DOS, 2nd edition to get a feel for the DOS File System and Network
Redirector (assuming you have that book). If you don’t have that book,
then Google the DOS redirector interface, which appeared in DOS at
version 3.1
I *absolutely* concur. If it's a plug-in module from a third-party source
then FreeDOS isn't responsible for any patent violations - and the network
redirector route (as above, à la MSCDEX) is how to do that.
Unfortunately, Linux doesn’t have a 16-bit C compiler (that I am aware
of). GCC has some fundamental differences in C dialect from OpenWatcom
and Borland which would require conditional defines (especially with
regard to inline assembly) and GCC doesn’t support 16-bit OBJ files as a
target, mostly COFF and ELF binaries which will not work on DOS (at
least at the 8/16-bit level).
You can run OpenWatcom on Linux. At one point I crosscompiled a few
pieces of another DOS version with it.
-uso.
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