Re: [vile] vile bug report: vile on DOS?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, George Eccles wrote:
>
> > I want (need?) to do some editing on an old '386 DOS box.  I downloaded 
> > vile-dos.  But, to run on this box, vile apparently needs CWSDPMI.EXE, 
> > which apparently needs a math coprocessor.
> >
> > Without going to a lot of trouble, would you know if that last sentence is 
> > correct?  If it is, I'll just move on.  But, if there's a simple way to 
> > vile run on DOS, that would be handy.
>
> I don't know offhand, but will look and see if I can find the answer.
> (I don't recall anyone mentioning this before...).

I don't see anything explicit in cswdpmi, however vile does use floating
point.  Google reminds me that you can use emu386.exe for this - hth

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