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From: hscott@netcom.com (Harold Scott)
Subject: Re: Status of DOS emulation?
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Jack (harpoMARX@javanet.com) wrote:
: Ideally, I would like to get rid of my Win-95 partition (I dual boot
: between that and FBSD 2.2)...but I need to run wordperfect 6 for DOS, or
: one of the windows versions. Wine doesn't seem to be up to the task at
: this point, and pcemu won't work with version 6 for DOS.
: I'd really like to stick with a BSD if possible...what are my other
: options: 

I asked the same question and was told that real dos emu is not supported.
I hear about a bsd desktop distribution, which I would run tomorrow if it
would support my dos applications.

I don't want to switch to linux, but it does do what I need today.

scott