On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 01:57, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2003 17:55 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > List
> >
> > We are having a new convert to Linux from M$sludge. He has a
> > business, small, and is spendinging way to much time trying to keep
> > his box working. I just spent 2 hours cleaning a virii and updateing
> > his virii code, Norton. It does pay well thogh, hehe. As I was saying,
> > I am about to get him a new Hard drive, 60 to 120 gig IDE. I will be
> > putting linux system on it and a partition for dos stuff he needs for
> > work and till he can converet over. I was wondering to myself if
> > gentoo or suse 8.2 pro would be best. It is nice to have such nice
> > problems. Just thought Linux group would like to know about any new
> > converts.
> >
> > cheers
>
> Good going..!! One thought I had is that you might consider using
> dosemu for his DOS stuff. Works quite well and I have a couple of
> dinosaur apps running under it. (some DbaseIII stuff and a checking
> program) Depending on what he is using, it might save him some booting.
I use Win4Lin at home (wife's damn bank insists on a Winders-only
security plugin for Explorer). It really lets you keep access to Windows
and Dos apps. I really never got far with DosEmu. I would like to do
something like 'dos my_dos_command' from Linux. We use a TI DSP
compiler/assembler that is DOS-only. We would love to have it execute
easily from our Linux Makefiles. It seemed to me that DosEmu is set up
so you can start dos and do things interactively. Not on the command
line. Win4Lin allows a Linux command line to run a DOS command. As in:
Usage: dos [flags] filename args...
Usage: dos [flags]
The first form runs DOS filename, and the second form runs DOS
'command.com'.
The flags override default or installed options, and give directives to
override normal dosexec operations. The following is a partial list.
(For a complete list of options, refer to the manual page)
+ax Assign device 'x'.
+h Help information displayed (this screen). DOS is not run.
+kc Use configuration 'c'. +ku:c means use user u's configuration c.
+mn Memory size. Number 'n' (decimal) in Megabytes.
+r Startup location is the root of the personal drive.
-r Startup location matches current UNIX location if possible.
-t Do not translate DOS command line arguments.
+x Runs the session in an X window if possible.
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Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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