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From: tgm@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams)
Subject: Re: Running DOS apps under FreeBSD
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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 13:38:22 GMT
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Jim Rush (jimrush@indirect.com) wrote:

: Is there a way to bring up a DOS shell under FreeBSD so that I can run
: DOS apps without rebooting under a dos partition ?
:

If you need this capability now, you could use Linux. Linux has had
an MS-DOS emulator for quite some time, and it works quite well.
Check out the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy for more information.

Thomas
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