If you're trying to run some dos programs, I suggest you look at dosemu.
It comes with most distros now adays and can run msdos 3.3 or later.
I've actually run freedos on it also. It runs very well and is much
lighter than win4lin. It seems like a better tool to run DOS programs
than win4lin. I'd also think that once MS Windows loses all MS-DOS
compatibility (with VM technology, which is how MSDOS is run on windows9x
and up anyway, DOS compatibility will be around for quite a while), I
think DOSEMU could be ported to windows NT-based OSs quite easily.
Fortunately I've never been adicted to Outlook Express. Pine works fine
for me, even if it is 15 years old. ;)
Michael
On Fri, 18 May 2001, citizen wrote:
> Brilliant!
>
> Thank you, Mark, I'm back in business.
>
> I just can't say how happy I am to be able
> to run a couple of old DOS friends that were barely
> hanging on under WindowsME and that I have a very strong suspicion
> will not be able to run at all when the next version of MSWIndows
> comes out -- and this without having to give up Outlook Express!
>
> Win4Lin is HOT!
>
> Bill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark W. Knecht
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 5:53 PM
> Subject: RE: [Win4Lin-users] win4lin window is too small
>
>
> Bill,
> This is pretty if'fy, and I know I had a better way to do this, but I can't
>figure it out right now. So here we go with plan 2... (or maybe Plan 9, if you catch
>my drift...)
>
> If you right click on the Windows desktop, you get the Display Properties
>dialog box, and as I understand your description, you can see settings, so choose
>that.
>
> On my machine, you come up highlighting Colors. Hit your tab key 1 time, and
>you should be on Screen area. You're at 640, so hit the right arrow on your keyboard
>a couple of times. Now you're at 1024, or whatever your card supports.
>
> From here, you can hit the tab key 4 more times to get to apply, and then hit
>enter to do it.
>
> If my number of keystrokes don't exactly match what you see, because your
>graphics adapter can change this dialog box (and I'm testing from Windows, not
>Win4Lin Windows right now) you can usually test this by counting how many tab key
>hits take you all the way around the loop. The apply key is one before colors, so
>count it out and you'll get it.
>
> Good luck,
> Mark
>
> (And there actually is a key combination for moving windows if your mouse dies,
>but I can't find it.....sorry)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of BillH
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 5:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Win4Lin-users] win4lin window is too small
>
>
> Let me rephrase my last question:
>
> The X-window that contains my
> Win98 desktop is too small
> relative to the size of my Gnome desktop.
>
> If I look at the display settings inside Win98,
> the slider is positioned all the way to the left
> of the scale where it says 640X480.
>
> If that is the thing I have to change
> then I am in a Catch22 because to change
> that setting I have to move the slider and then
> click on the OK "button". Unfortunately,
> the window is so small now that I can't
> see the OK "button".
>
> HELP|OnWindow says
>
> "Win4Lin prevents you from resizing windows
> larger than the default size".
>
> So how can I make the default size bigger?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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