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Will the up and coming WABI for Solaris also support character
based DOS applications? Or will a product like SoftPC still be
necessary for "full" DOS application solution on Sparcstations?

Thanks,

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: Will the up and coming WABI for Solaris also support character
: based DOS applications? Or will a product like SoftPC still be
: necessary for "full" DOS application solution on Sparcstations?

No.
It works by translating Windows API calls, and will assume Windows
format for executables.

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Will the up and coming WABI for Solaris also support character
based DOS applications? Or will a product like SoftPC still be
necessary for "full" DOS application solution on Sparcstations?

Thanks,

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  Patrick M. Stickler  OH2LUV, KC4YYY    The comments contained herein
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No.  Wabi does not handle any dos based applications.  You can however,
hook up a pif for your favorite dos emulator (such as SoftPC, etc) and
run your dos apps.

--S

But surely not everything a Windows application does is a Windows
API call. ie. there is some translation of x86 machine code to
SPARC machine code. So isn't the "Dos Prompt" in the "Main" group just
an example of a Windows application, which either works or not under
WABI. I suspect it doesn't, though.

Quote:>...
>SPARC machine code. So isn't the "Dos Prompt" in the "Main" group just
>an example of a Windows application, which either works or not under
>WABI. I suspect it doesn't, though.

The latter is correct.

DOS goes through the varying DOS BIOS junk for characters. MS Windows
programs go through the Windows API. for _everything_.

Properly written ones, anyways.

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Will the up and coming WABI for Solaris also support character
based DOS applications?  Or will a product like SoftPC still be
necessary for "full" DOS application solution on Sparcstations?

Thanks,

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  Patrick M. Stickler  OH2LUV, KC4YYY    The comments contained herein
  WSOY - Information Systems Division    do not necessarily reflect the

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Even though the W no longer means Windows... WABI only runs Windows.
WABI does allow you to call up a SoftPC like application
from within WABI to run DOS apps.

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John Marsh

Quote:>DOS goes through the varying DOS BIOS junk for characters. MS Windows
>programs go through the Windows API. for _everything_.

Ah.. let me rephrase that :-/

Properly written MS Windows programs go through the windows API for
everything that has some form of output, be it screen-output, sound-output,
or printer-output.

They although go through the API for input, apart from some forms of disk
access.

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I can't imagine SunSelect implementing a TrueType engine, which does all kinds
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them into legal trouble?