To quote the manual, "dosemu is a user-level program which uses certain special features of the Linux kernel and the 80386 processor to run MS-DOS in what we in the biz call a `DOS box.' The DOS box, a combination of hardware and software trickery, has these capabilities:
The newest version of dosemu is dosemu0.50pl1
and can be
ftp'ed from the following sites:
dspsun.eas.asu.edu:/pub/dosemu/ tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/
If you want to follow the development of dosemu, you should
consider subscribing to the MSDOS channel on Linux-activists. To
subscribe, send mail to
linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi
. Your mail HEADER or
FIRST LINE must contain the line:
X-Mn-Admin: join MSDOSTo post to the list, send mail to linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi. Your mail HEADER or FIRST LINE must contain the line:
X-Mn-Key: MSDOS
The dosemu manual (dosemu.texinfo
) written by Robert
Sanders has not been updated in some time but is still a good source
of information. It is distributed with dosemu.
The "dosemu Novice's Altering Guide" or DANG is a road map to the
inner workings of dosemu. It is designed for the adventurous, those
who wish to modify the source code themselves. The DANG is maintained
by Alistair MacDonald (am20@unix.york.ac.uk
) and is
posted once in a while to the MSDOS channel of Linux Activists.
The EMU success list (EMUsuccess.txt) is a list of all programs that have been reported to work with dosemu. It is posted once in a while to the MSDOS channel of Linux Activists. The most recent version can be found on dspsun.eas.asu.edu:/pub/dosemu.
And then, of course, there is the dosemu FAQ/HOWTO. But you already
know about that, don't you. It is also posted once in a while to the
MSDOS channel of Linux Activists. The most recent version can be
found on dspsun.eas.asu.edu:/pub/dosemu
.
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