DOS programs on Linux?

Nick monkeywrencher at theoryshare.com
Mon Jul 5 17:39:59 UTC 2004


Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 18:21, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>  
>
>>Is there a way to run DOS programs on Linux (FC2)?
>>
>>Regards
>>-- 
>>Erik P. Olsen
>>    
>>
>
>Check out the wine project.  
>
>You may also want to check out Crossover office.  It works for a number
>of Windows programs.  Just don't expect to use it with Quickbooks.  I
>found it less than acceptable for that use. 
>
>Depending on what you need to do there are many native linux
>applications that can do what most of the Windows programs do.  You may
>have better luck checking those out than getting MS programs to run
>under linux.
>
>  
>
Dos programs can be run very well with dosemu wine is only for w32 
applications. DOSEMU can be found at http://www.dosemu.org/ other good 
dos emulators can surely be found at sourceforge.net





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