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From: sedwards@esunix.UUCP (Scott Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: XDOS Lets DOS Programs Run On Unix Systems
Message-ID: <1093@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 01:24:17 GMT
References: <366@marob.MASA.COM>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah
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 In article <331@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel VP) writes:
>Not exactly sure where to post this, I chose comp.misc. I read in Info World
>about a program that will run ms-dos programs on a Unix box. What exactly
>does this program do? How does it deal with the terminal i/o ? Does it take
>the code straight from binary and re-code it into the native code for your box?

XDOS from Hunter systems translates MS-DOS programs to run on 680x0
Unix systems, BUT according to the Nov. 14 issue of Electronic
Engineering Times it cannot do it alone, it usually requires a key
supplied by the original program vendor to help it through some of the
more difficult sections.  I suspect it also takes care of some ugly
legalities that could come up when doing this sort of thing.

-- Scott