Re: doscmd status?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:39:15PM +0100, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 06:27:41PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 05:22:51PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > > Does anybody know about the status of doscmd, which is included in
> > > pkgsrc but is only for i386?
> > 
> > It's dead. I would recomment qemu.
> 
> It's only a PC emulator though.
> dosbox is a better choice: it's a PC _and_ DOS emulator. You get a
> straight command.com like prompt without the need to install a
> complete operating system.

Let me repeat. dosbox is dead. It depends on functionality that doesn't
even exist on amd64 any more. It's not like you can't trivially obtain a
DOS installation. Let's start with http://www.freedos.org/

Joerg