Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mintaka!yale!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!awdprime!heyman.austin.ibm.com!jerry From: jerry@heyman.austin.ibm.com (Jerry Heyman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: The "pcsim" command for a DOS environment ?? Message-ID: <4718@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 91 15:59:12 GMT References: <12040@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Organization: IBM Austin, TX Lines: 38 In article <12040@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> haines@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (Matt Haines) writes: >Hi all. > >A friend of mine is trying to get some PC software running on our >AIX machine via the "pcsim" environment. I have never heard of this, >and when I tried it, I was placed into the BASIC interpreter and >was not allowed to leave. Commands like "system", "end", "stop" >seemed to have no effect. > The documentation for PCSIM is pretty extensive on how to set it up to run DOS applications. To begin with you will need to start pcsim with a DOS diskette in the diskette drive using: pcsim -A 3 You should also have TOUCHED a file prior to starting the pcsim so that you can emulate a hard disk. To do that execute the following commands: touch filename pcsim -A 3 -C filename Then its just like you have a brand new AT. You have to format the C drive, copy DOS over to it, etc. The documentation is better than what I've just described. > >Thanks in advance or any help. >--Matt >-- >Matt Haines | "Why waste time learning when >Colorado State University, CS Dept. | ignorance is instantaneous" >503 University Services Center | - Hobbes >Ft. Collins, CO 80523 | (303) 491-1943 | jerry -- Jerry Heyman IBM T-R: jerry@heyman.austin.ibm.com AWD Tools Development VNET : HEYMAN at AUSVMQ AWD Austin T/L : 793-3962 *** All opinions expressed are exactly that - my opinions and NOT IBM's