[CS-FSLUG] Freedos

[Ed Hurst]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:59:18 -0500, Dave & Ella McMullen  
<DavidM at hisfeet.net> wrote:

> There is a wealth of programs on the internet available for "Dos"
> Including Audio programs, grafix programs and Gui interfaces.  Some of
> them are comercial, but many of them (probably most) are now freeware or
> open source plus a great deal of "abandon-ware".
>
> Freedos works well, and it is very fast, by itself, or within Linux.

I've used it recently with the old Enable Software suite, so popular with  
government offices up until about 1990. By 1994 it was all phased out,  
bought out by MS and buried. Except, you can still get the last release  
 from private enthusiasts. FreeDOS does a surprising amount of setup during  
installation, to include trying to identify the networking chipset and  
getting the stack running. Using Enable under DOSEmu on some Linux distros  
failed to pass the raw printer data, but would break the page formatting.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knew of a good virus scanner for DOS.  
When F-Prot ended their DOS version a couple of years ago, I wondered what  
would happen with the many folks I know about still running DOS.

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Ed Hurst
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