Subject: Re: Doscmd?
To: Zachary Kline <klinez@onid.orst.edu>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/15/2007 23:22:13
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 01:52:57PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi,
>     I realize this seems an odd question, but I feel compelled to ask it=
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> anyway.
>     I have a lot of old computer games and such which run under Dos, and=
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> which a Windows screen reader has a lot of trouble with.  I don't even ha=
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> Dos on this PC anymore.  So...I felt I might have some luck if I could ru=
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> them under NetBSD's Doscmd, via a VmWare virtual machine which my screen=
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> reader could then read.  It's a fairly complicated setup, actually.
>     Anyway, I've tried to compile Doscmd via pkgsrc.  The message I get=
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> claims it isn't available for NetBSD i386?  Checking the DESCR file, it=
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> would seem to be...
>     Have I any other option?  Is this port just broken beyond repair?

Try dosemu (in the emulators category, too).

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"See the look on my face from staying too long in one place
[...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling"
KT Tunstall, Saving My Face, Drastic Fantastic, 2007.

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