Re: DOS programs on Linux?

[Nick <monkeywrencher theoryshare com>]

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