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KWTm
10-01-2002, 07:04 PM
The DOSemu (DOS emulator) documentation is somewhat patchy, and fails to answer this question that I hope some guru out there can answer:

How exactly do I use DOSemu?

I have a 486 (33MHz) with DOS 6.2 on the first partition, and RedHat 5.1 on another partition. I asked it to install DOSemu during the RedHat install, so I presume that it's there.

I have WordPerfect 5.1 on DOS, the latest non-Windows version. When I boot into DOS, it runs fine. I'd like to run WP5.1 from with Linux.

What do I do?

The DOSemu documentation waxes eloquently on how to configure the thing, but how do I actually get my DOS programs to run??

slapNUT
10-01-2002, 09:48 PM
To start it type dos in a terminal or xdos.

To use the DOS-6.22 partition you should look in /etc/dosemu.conf file and make sure the line $_hdimage points to the correct partition; e.g.
$_hdimage = "/dev/hda1"