On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Mohamed Saad wrote:

>  is there any 1-2-3 turorial on how to Configure it,
> and run it??

Building:
1) Extract the source tar file
2) Enter the source directory
3) Run './default-configure
4) Run 'make'.

Installing:
1) Become root
2) Run 'make install'

Running:
1a) Run 'dos' for use on a console/terminal
1b) Run 'xdos' for use under X-windows

>  do i need a version of Dos beside dosemu to run it?

Yes.

> (at least, i guess i understood this! :) where can i
> download a free version of DOS?? (i.e. a free ware!
> not a pirated version!!)

DOSEMU comes with the a copy of DOS/C (the kernel used by Freedos)  There
are no free versions of MS or PC-DOS. It is possible to get a "free" 
evaluation copy of DR-DOS from lineo (www.lineo.com), but its license is
uncertain. There is also 'freedos' (www.freedos.org).

Alistair

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