Re: Running DOS screen access software under Linux

[lark@world.std.com (Lar Kaufman)]

One thing needs to be made clear.  Dosemu isn't an emulation.  It is
an interface that allows you to run DOS (MS-DOS, PC DOS, or Open DOS)
in a 640kb block of memory from within Linux.  Because of the memory
limit, you can only run Windows 2.0 or earlier if you need a Windows
application; I'm not sure whether Windows 95 could be run in DOS mode.
I have run such DOS applications as ProComm, Word Perfect, and Pro Audio
Spectrum's text-to-voice application from within Linux, but I have to add
the caveat that this was only from curiousity rather than need, and I 
never tried to rely on such use.  I did encounter temporary freezing of
other Linux applications while using ProComm and the PAS application, 
but Dosemu has been improved, I believe, with Linux spooling some I/O
processes...

-lar
   Lar Kaufman, Concord, MA, USA
          "What's the use of yearning for Elysian Fields 
          when you know you can't get 'em,  and would only 
          let 'em out on building leases if you had 'em?" -  W.S. Gilbert

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