On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 14:03, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > DOSEMU can definitely boot FreeDOS (or any DOS) in a window like I've > described, where it's a completely self-contained and installed DOS. That's > exactly how I used to run DOSEMU in the DOSEMU "1.x" days.
Yes, I know, but that's not what I was talking about. What I was talking about was primarily the integration between DOS and the underlying OS. That I had a set of drive letters that were my home directory, and the whole Linux filesystem, and so on. I could do, say, DIR d:\apps\msword > z:\wordlist.txt And bingo, there's a file in my home directory called wordlist.txt containing the list of files in what DOS sees as my d:\apps\word folder. I could open WordPerfect, write some stuff, save it as a a file in Z:\Docume~1\mywpdoc.wp and then alt-tab to my Linux desktop and open ~/Documents/mywpdoc.wp in LibreOffice, check it looked OK, and then flip to Thunderbird email it to my boss. It makes DOS apps part of the apps on the computer. That's why it was useful to me. That's why I've been asking about getting FD13 running under it. A VM doesn't do that. It is a virtual PC with a virtual HD and inside that a FAT filesystem. My Linux apps can't see into it. My DOS apps can't see Linux files. Whether it's in a window or not doesn't matter. That's just cosmetics. I'm not starting an argument, I am just trying to understand. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
