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Re: Wine question



 On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 07:42:04 -0400 
Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:57:55 -0400 
> "Bill Ricker" <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > what works if a Windows program needsto spawn a DOS program to handle 
> > sometuhing and get results back? 
> 
> DOSEMU and DOSBOX are free and have been part of linux for a long time, 
> and they are very light weight. VMWare is excellent if you want to run 
> a full copy of Windows, but it is overkill for a single DOS 
> application. I've used DOSEMU to run Word Perfect for DOS. Ubuntu 
> should have both in their archives. I'll check Ubuntu when I turn my 
> laptop on at Work. 


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