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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dosemu on FreeBSD?
Date: 27 Jan 1996 21:15:04 GMT
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atrens@bmerh8bf.bnr.ca (Andrew Atrens) writes:

> I've tried building dosemu on FreeBSD with little success... the
> build seems to involve the 'as86' assembler and 'ld86' linker. I got
> the source for these but they don't seem to play nicely together
> under FreeBSD. Has anyone had any success with this?

:)

Well, as86 and ld86 are the least problems when it comes to dosemu.
You could install the ``bcc'' package (Bruce's C compiler) for them,
all is ready-to-run there.

Anyway, FreeBSD still misses a vm86 mode which is required for the
dosemu.

By now, unless you're going to create the vm86 interface and
contribute it to the system (great!), you could use pcemu from the
ports if you are only interested in DOS/8086/textmode.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)