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Subject: Re: Will DJGPP work with PTS-DOS 32?
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:46:59 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,

On Mar 20, 9:07=A0am, themouse <usul DOT the DOT mo DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> FYI
>
> I found the old win95 restore disk for the laptop.
> so I should be able to do a dual boot or dos based menu.
> So I'm pretty pumped, I am almost there.

I didn't mean Win95 specifically was what you should use, just that it
is better than DOS 6.22 (since Win95 has FAT32, LBA ... at least in
OSR2 or so, does ver say "7.10"?). FreeDOS is equally as good if you
don't need decent Win 3.x support (stupid undocumented crud). As
mentioned, DOSEMU + FreeDOS (which has all necessary precompiled
binaries for Linux on SourceForge) will work, and I've used it on
PuppyLinux a few months ago, so that would work for you too. I would
imagine that can multitask DOS apps for you (although not natively in
FreeDOS itself). If you really wanted something like that, you could
try RDOS, ZDOS, or (non-free) DR-DOS. However, keep in mind that most
people don't use such, so your audience will be (very) small. Besides,
except for DR-DOS (which hasn't been updated since 1998, no FAT32, no
LBA), they aren't very MS-DOS compatible. (Actually, I'm pretty sure
DJGPP apps don't work in ZDOS. Not sure about RDOS. I haven't tested
either of those yet, honestly.) Oh, BTW, Japheth's HX can multithread
too, and there's some weird hackish way to use DJGPP to make PEs for
it. (To be honest, it seems OpenWatcom is better for RDOS, ZDOS, or
HX. See news://openwatcom.users.c_cpp or news://openwatcom.contributors
for stuff about that.)

http://www.japheth.de/HX/djgpp.html

> All I need is networking and I'll be on my way

Good luck with that (very confusing!!):   http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/