On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 8:18 AM Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >
>From how you described it, I assumed you were talking about DEXE's. You said "runs DOS like a program under Linux" which is very similar to the "DOSEMU apps" (DEXE's) I mentioned. http://www.dosemu.org/docs/README/0.99/README-4.html > 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. [..] > 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. > Yes, that is a great feature of DOSEMU. I used that all the time when I ran DOSEMU, to write FreeDOS programs. I'd use GNU Emacs on Linux to write/edit my program, save my work from Emacs (in my DOSEMU directory) and then switch to the DOSEMU window to compile the program on FreeDOS. When the program finally worked correctly on FreeDOS, I could make a zip of my work (from DOSEMU) and switch to a Linux bash shell (xterm) to upload my zip file to Ibiblio. All without rebooting. I don't agree that this feature "makes DOS apps part of the apps on the computer" but rather that FreeDOS (running in DOSEMU) and Linux can access the same files at the same time via a shared folder. Maybe that's a minor point, but "making DOS apps part of the apps on the computer" implies to me something like a DEXE. > 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. > As others have already said, you can also use a Linux directory as a DOS drive. Darrin pointed to a way to do it in QEMU, and Robert pointed to vvfat in Bochs. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
