Hi Dan,
Will try to explain things in context for a change laughs.
On Sun, 18 Oct 2026, Dan Ritter wrote:
Karen Lewellen wrote:
My goal is not simply playing radio stations, or streams.
My goal is to reach specific stations, several of them, included in what
tune in provides, for professional reasons.
If you can specify them, it is likely that the underlying stream
URLs can be extracted so that you don't need to deal with
TuneIn.
Dan, I produce radio series and media content for an arts/ cultural
nonprofit.
www.curtainupdistribution.org
I also produce stories for a solutions journalism newsroom, a program area
of the same organization, in Canada.
www.commongroundmedia.ca
Lastly, I sing professionally.
www.karenlewellen.com/samples.htm
What I am not is a programmer. I would rather invest in tune-in, letting
them do the heavy lifting, then list the likely scores of stations that I
might require, at any given moment, for my jobs.
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I run DOS on my computers. In fact the Box I am having built will, if
freedos manages multiprocessing, which I feel sure it does, be configured so
I can manage Linux resources as I do currently.
I'm sorry to tell you that this is incorrect. FreeDOS is a
single user, single-thread, single-processor operating system,
specifically built to be compatible with MS DOS, which was a
single user, single-thread, single-processor OS.
I am realizing such is the case *sniff*.
Currently I ssh, from DOS, into various Linux focused shell services.
If successful I will ssh into a Linux shell, but on a different drive of my
own machine, local as you state here.
That's not a thing which can happen as you describe.
Yes, although it is rather sad to discover.
However! Your goal, as described, can be handled in another way.
Linux can manage the machine and run FreeDOS in a virtual machine
session under Linux. (You can run many such sessions at the same
time.)
Perhaps. what I am not explaining clearly is that I must have access to
suitable adaptive tools first.
Yes, Linux has some. but for me personally, those tools are physical
non-starters for a variety of medical reasons.
so, unless, even when running Linux, the machine boots directly into
freedos, while still allowing me to ssh around, this may be far too
complex.
Each virtual machine's "disk" will actually be a file in the
Linux machine's filesystem.
I respect this. I must, however, run a dos screen reader from the start
if that resonates.
The reliable, built-in tool for doing this is called KVM/QEMU.
There are various toolkits on top of this to make management
easier, including Incus, LibVirt, and others. Incus and libvirt
both have complete command-line clients that do not require
GUIs.
My understanding of virtual, which I admit is limited, gave me the sense
that the host system must be launched first. If such is the case, then
this process will not work.
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Another possibility just occurred to me. Keep your existing DOS
machine, and put a new Linux machine next to it. With speakers
plugged into the Linux machine, you can use the familiar DOS
machine to SSH in to the Linux machine, and have your radio
streams played to those speakers.
granted, I am keeping my DOS system anyway, it is my primary means of
getting things done. Including using ssh to reach my employer's dreamhost
workspace, my own site's workspace, and a third location where I manage
gmail among other things.
However, building a local Linux box into which I ssh, not just for
running tune-in, but for using tools like tawb, which allows one to run
Firefox in a text focused graphics environment.
More and more daily I need to swiftly access YouTube and other links from
within an email, review the content, and go back to the email or article
involved.
The time it would take me to strip down streams is simply not productive
if that resonates.
My other serious challenge is going to be getting the Linux stuff
configured locally.
The engineer providing this hardware is firmly a windows person, not even
mac solid.
Hopefully the project will be so unique that someone with my local Linux
group takes an interest. At the least I will want a solid image that can
be burned to a cd for easy of installing what is required.
The Linux resource providing my gmail door, and working to give me a taste
of tawb lives across the country from me.
-dsr-
Kare
