I suppose not too many people will need a DOS emulation, but the truth is there were a lot of slick programs that ran under DOS. I wrote a bunch of programs in Foxpro and little by little I have been rewriting them in C++, but the truth is that for database manipulations I can still write something up a lot quicker in Foxpro.

Download a current version of DOSEMU, which you can get from the DOSEMU HOME PAGE. There is a fair amount of documentation. You just unzip the files somewhere in your user home directory and you are ready to go.

As I cautioned on another page--there are some security issues, so read the documentation if you are going to be hooked up to the internet or a network that isn't 100% yours.

I will warn you, I couldn't get the FREEDOS "choice" program to work and I had a fair number of problems with the command shell in this respect: I couldn't get Foxpro external commands to run and I couldn't get it to exit and run batch files, either. Since I use the program for keeping track of data files and archiving them, this is an inconvenience that took me two days of puzzling over to come up with a workaround. (However, I also advanced my system to keep track of multiple open files, so in that respect the time was well-spent). Anyway, my Foxpro 2.5 is running just fine on the applications I use, with the exception of the batch file/external commands issues.

I was a bit disappointed with respect to the batch file issues, since I have a bunch of clever batch files (anyway, I think they are clever...) You might try using real DOS instead of FREEDOS, I haven't attempted that yet.

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