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From: pi@bridge.bloomington.in.us (Raymond L. Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: freebsd dos emulator
Date: 15 May 1995 08:31:59 GMT
Organization: A FreeBSD Enthusiast
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Thus it was recorded by the prophets, ccam@kudu.ru.ac.za (Andile Mbatyoti) said:
>I am looking for a dos emulator that runs on freebsd.

Try pcemu.  I use it (among other things) to read and convert WP5.1
files... it works rather nicely--much better than rebooting under DOS.

From the README:
>The most recent version of this program will always be in ftp.cs.bris.ac.uk
>currently in the directory /users/hedley

I think I also rememeber seeing this in either the ports or packages dir.
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