[Wine] install a DOS application with wine

Rick Knight rick_knight at rlknight.com
Sat Jul 14 10:43:41 CDT 2007


Dosemu and xdosemu are probably a better choice.

Rick

Franz wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a relatively small executable (and also the source code) for an 
> experimental data logging application which was written to be used 
> with DOS in the middle ages of earth.
>
> I tried to install it using wine.
> Wine simply hangs after the second line - no return to prompt - see 
> below:
>
> user at Laptop:~$ wine '/home/user/Desktop/Pocket.exe'
> Warning: unprotecting memory to allow real-mode calls.
>         NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
>
> Is it possible to use wine for this purpose ? Can anyone help me, 
> please ?
>
> Franz
>
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