Re: Can a dos box be started in Wine

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In article <NGBBKODFNJCNAIIIMLAAGEMBCIAA.olejagro@start.no>, "Ole-Jacob
Grønvold" <olejagro@start.no> muttered something like:

> Hello everbody
> 
> Can a dos box be  started in Wine?
> 
> I have  a humble dos program from 1990 called "Wordperfect Office v 3.0
> " Here I am still using Notebook in a dos box in Windows - and I still
> have all my telephone numbers and addresses there. I would dearly like
> to see that program up and running in my redhat 7.2 I tried dosemu too
> with no success.
> ojg

Probably the best thing to do if you want DOS functionality is to use
dosemu (www.dosemu.org IIRC), it's specifically aimed at using DOS
windows under linux, and works quite well. WINE is more aimed at running
windows programs.

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