Kerry Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody have any experience running a DOS program under one of > the emulators on Linux? This particular program is an old point of > sale program, but is much more stable than the newer Windoze > version. > > I've never used any of the emulators, I've got Wine loaded but don't > understand all I know about it yet... I read about DOSemu, has > anybody here used it? Which would you prefer to use to run this DOS > program? The program doesn't need to access the serial ports or > anything, only the network. > > How would you run this old DOS program under Linux?
DOSemu is probably your best bet (I think wine does not execute (most of) DOS programs at all, just the windows programs which happen to have a similar executable format. Correct me if I'm wrong.) I've had very good experiences with it; setting it up for the first time and installing the virtual DOS can be a bit of a pain, but after that it's pretty straight-forward and takes a lot of pressure off the admin. (Just imagine you can remotely kick some wedged DOS app). Give the DOS box/application the least (port/video/...) access possible which still allows it to run happily; that should ward off most potential problems from the start. If you need more help setting up DOSemu ask away - I can't promise that I can help (it's a while ago since I last did that dance), but there might be some hidden knowledge still stowed away ;-) Another possibility would be VMWare; from the $$$ point of view I'd say it would be overkill for you. So long, Joe -- "I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor." -- Neal Stephenson, "In the beginning... was the command line" _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
