running older DOS console programs with bochs or dosbox

Clark C. Evans cce at clarkevans.com
Thu Feb 12 15:43:26 PST 2004


I'm trying to get a DOS emulator to work under FreeBSD, the archive
was provided as an example of what I'm trying ton run.  I was not 
struggling with unziping this archive.  Does anyone have any paths
I should be trying to get an emulator to work?  

Thanks,

Clark

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:06:15PM +0100, Guido van Rooij wrote:
| On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:17:11PM -0500, Clark C. Evans wrote:
| > Hello.  I'm trying to get a DOS program in the self-extracting
| > archive http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ayoung/GAS20/gas20dos.exe
| > to run on FreeBSD.  I tried to use bochs and dosbox.
| > 
| 
| Why so complex?
| 
| [/tmp] guido at beck> unzip gas*
| Archive:  gas20dos.exe
|   inflating: GAS.EXE                 
|   inflating: ALS.GAS                 
|   inflating: ALS.PED                 
|   inflating: ALS1.SIZ                
|   inflating: ALS2.SIZ                
|   inflating: ASSOC.GAS               
|   inflating: ASSOC.PED               
| etc.
| 
| -Guido


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