I see, ya i agree dosemu would be the best way, but there hasn't been a BSD port in in long time. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Halim Issa <yallaone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, and thanks for answering! > > I was hoping since OSX is BSD-based, that there perhaps were already a > way to tweak the build to make it build there.. > > The reason why we need dosemu rather than dosbox is that we've had > trouble getting dosbox to map the LPT1 printer port to a virtual > network-based printer in the past. On dosemu under Linux it's easy to > map LPT1 to a cups printer queue set up as raw. > > The applications running in dosbox are a plethora of old custom > Clipper applications (compiled with summer87) - it's all rather > ancient.. > > > 2010/1/21 solarflow99 <solarflow99@xxxxxxxxx>: >> I dont see how it can, dosemu hasnt been ported to OSX. You can try >> dosbox though, it emulates the x86 hardware in addition to DOS so it >> can run across platforms. What dos program are you looking to run? >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Halim Issa <yallaone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Can anyone kindly confirm that dosemu runs and functions on MacOSX >>> similar to how it works under Linux? Anything special to look out for? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any insight or pointers >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in >>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>> >> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
