wine users - Apr 2001 - Help: How to run DOS program which needs ansi.sys???

Hi folks,

does anybody know how to get a DOS executable to run that relies heavily on
ansi.sys 
to simulate a text-based user interface? My wine version is "Wine release
20010305".

Any help appreciated.

Regards
Lothar

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Lothar Birk wrote:
> does anybody know how to get a DOS executable to run that relies heavily on
> ansi.sys
> to simulate a text-based user interface? My wine version is "Wine
release
> 20010305".
Use DOSEMU instead.  The Linux console and xterm windows all support
ANSI escape sequences, possibly well enough for your apps.

DOSEMU requires MS-DOS, I think.
If you don't have a copy of MS-DOS handy, you can use FreeDOS
(http://www.freedos.org/).

BTW, I contributed my NANSI.SYS driver to the FreeDOS project last year.
Dunno if that gets used under DOSEMU or not... but it was fairly
compatible with the ANSI.SYS that shipped with MS-DOS 3.x.
- Dan