Subj : DOS IREX under linux
To   : Robert Wolfe
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Apr 19 2017 06:21 pm

> -> As the linux version of IREX seems to depend on older packages that are no
> -> longer available and therefore is difficult, if not impossible, to get
> -> working, has anyone ever tried successfully to get the DOS version of IREX
> -> working under dosemu or dosbox?
>
> It's not "impossible" to get working under newer Linux distros.  You
> just use IP addresses instead of FQDNs.

It will not even fire up on my linux machine.  I keep getting "segmentation
faults."  My understanding is that is because of the missing, old
dependencies.  I don't think it has anything to do with using ip addresses
vs. FQDNs.

I would not mind installing the required, old packages if (1) I knew what
they were, and (2) they would not break anything else that runs on the
machine.  From experience, I suspect #2 is not a reasonable expectation.

Mike
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