Hello Bob.

03 Aug 04 10:38, you wrote to David Drummond:

 BL>  Bloody hell! DOSEMU works!

that's hard to believe :)

 BL>  The last time I tried running Telix, I was using the old Sportster
 BL> 14400 modem. Since then, I've installed my PCI "Linux"
modem with its
 BL> HAM driver, and under DOSEMU (the Linux DOS emulator) and Telix, it
 BL> just connected to John's BBS no problem at all!

 BL>  As Peter Falk said under the bearskin with Natalie Wood in THE GREAT
 BL> RACE... this is fucking terrific!

:)

 BL>  Finally, I've found a Linux program that sort-of works in my
 BL> direction. DOSEMU is strange (with the usual ten-page configuration
 BL> file), but it works. It won't run Blue Wave for a reason I have not
 BL> yet delved (probably something crazy in Blue Wave, it was always a bit
 BL> that way), but it seems to run everything else, just like it was the
 BL> real DOS 6.

multimail is reportedly somewhat like blue wave, available for dos and linux.

 BL>  If I'm stuck with a command line (X11 sux), I'm tempted to forget
 BL> about Linux and just use DOS! (under Linux and dosemu). It'll save me
 BL> learning a whole new raft of silly new commands, each of which seems
 BL> to involve half a page of fault-free and correct-case typing.

if you've already got 4dos there on your dos system there's not a whole lot
to be gained with a linux command-line

Jasen

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