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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.
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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