On 17.07.99, 21:32:13, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
> I'm trying to run doscmd (from current pkg source on NetBSD 1.4)
> but no success... I get the error
> 
>   doscmd: fatal error vm86 returned
> 
> every time I run it, and I have tried both running it as
> 'doscmd file.exe' and 'booting' it from a floppy as suggested
> in the man page.
> 
> Any idea what may be wrong?

You need to have a kernel with the virtual 8086 emulation enabled.

Uncomment the line

  options        VM86            # virtual 8086 emulation

in the kernel config file.

> 
>    /Krister

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