Re: DOS .exe file support

[Michael Kallas <michael.kallas@web.de>]

Hi,

Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net> schrieb am 29.04.02:
> Hi,
>  I wonder from the first time I let my eyes on this project, what the
> EXE file support in the kernel configuration means?  I simply don't see
> any way of running a DOS .EXE executable in ELKS. Maybe if it was a COM
> file but even then we should emulate all the DOS _system_ calls. Am I
> missing something bigger here, or we should just remove it from the
> tree?
If this should be considered for being implemented any time, I suggest
having a look at http://www.freedos.org because FreeDOS is in beta stage
now already for quite a while and is quite advanced.
They even have FAT32 support now (but no LFN yet) and they also
support swapping.
Maybe ELKS could be something like a multitasking environment able to
execute linux/elks and DOS programs?

Best regards
Michael
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