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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ix.netcom.com!hscott From: hscott@netcom.com (Harold Scott) Subject: Re: Status of DOS emulation? Message-ID: <hscottEBA3vE.LE1@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Organization: Netcom On-Line Services X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <3395E137.167EB0E7@javanet.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 01:23:38 GMT Lines: 15 Sender: hscott@netcom16.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42386 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6063 Jack (harpoMARX@javanet.com) wrote: : Ideally, I would like to get rid of my Win-95 partition (I dual boot : between that and FBSD 2.2)...but I need to run wordperfect 6 for DOS, or : one of the windows versions. Wine doesn't seem to be up to the task at : this point, and pcemu won't work with version 6 for DOS. : I'd really like to stick with a BSD if possible...what are my other : options: I asked the same question and was told that real dos emu is not supported. I hear about a bsd desktop distribution, which I would run tomorrow if it would support my dos applications. I don't want to switch to linux, but it does do what I need today. scott