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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!hookup!swrinde!pipex!uunet!epiwrl.entropic.com!usenet From: kenh@entropic.com (Ken Hornstein) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: MsDos and NetBsd Date: 19 Nov 1994 00:57:54 -0500 Organization: Entropic Research Lab, Washington, DC. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3ak452$lsb@epiwrl.entropic.com> References: <3achqm$28b@owl.und.ac.za> <MICHAELV.94Nov16211456@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: epiwrl.entropic.com In article <MICHAELV.94Nov16211456@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >In article <3achqm$28b@owl.und.ac.za> smithl@lourie.und.ac.za (Lisa Smith) writes: > > I will "hopefully soon" have netbsd 1.0 and msdos on one hard disk. > Question is , can I shell from the bsd to the dos partion , or is > there some other way of transferring file between the two > >You can't "shell" from BSD to DOS because you aren't running DOS under >NetBSD. If you need to run DOS under "unix", your only get at this >point in time is Linux. Actually, as someone else already mentioned, pcemu works pretty well. I understand it's not as fast as the Linux dosemu, but it's fine for what I need (basically, all I need is Quicken :-) ). I run it under NetBSD 1.0. The author of pcemu claimed he couldn't find a text-based DOS program that didn't run under it. --Ken