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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!easix!knobel!andreas From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) Subject: Re: DOS/Windows under 386bsd (is there such?) Organization: Andreas Klemm, D-4040 Neuss 21 References: <1993May20.234750.5815@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993May21.135304.21185@cm.cf.ac.uk> <1u2er1$foe@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> <1993May27.094255.68574@cc.usu.edu> Message-ID: <1993May30.091953.1323@knobel.GUN.de> Date: Sun, 30 May 93 09:19:53 GMT Lines: 44 In <1993May27.094255.68574@cc.usu.edu> ivie@cc.usu.edu writes: |In article <1u2er1$foe@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>, lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) writes: |> |> If this is the case, then it must be possible to have a system that provides |> all the functionality of the DLL's but for X, so you could run windows |> applications under X on a [34]86 system running unix. |> |> I'm sure that there are a million reasons why this can't be done! (If it were |> possible, I'm sure a lot more people would trash their DOS/Windows partitions - |> I know I would!) |I think that this is the sort of thing that Sun's WABI does. Also, Novell's |UnixWare runs Windows programs on Unix, although I haven't found a local site |to play with yet (I'm aware of one that will be installing soon, but they're |not ready for me to torture their box yet). I visited SUN two weeks ago. They showed me the brand new WABI alpha release. Wabi looks like windows. I played a bit with winword and excel. Worked very well. WABI allows you to map any Unix path to a logical DOS drive C-Z. It's not like in many DOS emulators, that a dos drive C: is emulated in one large file. No. You have full access on single files of the Unix path. You can also use the Windows file manager to perform tasks on your Unix file system. You have also access to the 3.5" floppy drive. It is possible to mount Windows applications via nfs from a novell file server running Netware NFS, if there is any in the net. If you have an application Window, you can use the full sun screen with the full Sun resolution. It sould be possible to use 1280x1024 resolution on a SS LX. Great work. -- ---- Andreas Klemm ------- /////// andreas@knobel.GUN.de \\\\\\\ private : +49 2137 12609 D-4040 Neuss 21 (Norf), Germany at work : +49 2173 3964 161 Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Telefax : +49 2173 3964 222 Abteilung Unix Support, D-4019 Monheim