On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, David Hodges wrote:
> According to the README, dosemu also runs under NetBSD. Also I think
> I remember people trying to port it to FreeBSD a few years ago.
It was ported to NetBSD.

> Does anyone know how well it works under NetBSD or FreeBSD, e.g. does
> lredir work and can you run dosemu on the console or only under X,
> does it always need to run as root etc. ? Does the latest version

In that order:
no-one, probably, possibly, should do, probably

> work under NetBSD, or only some older versions and if so, which ones ?

Older versions would be the best bet. For example, I *KNOW* the SB code
will not compile under NetBSD.

> (I notice that it says in the README (but don't know whether it is
> still TRUE) that the graphics emulation is expected not to work
> under NetBSD - that would rule out most DOS applications.)

'vgaemu' (under X) will probably work, but can you compile it ?

None of the developers run Free/NetBSD so we have no idea. Having said
that, we presume the answer is now "No".

Alistair

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