DOS under UNIX (enquiry)

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

In article <1843 at kulcs.kulcs.uucp> btmcrc at kulcs.UUCP () writes:
>Hello everybody,
>We are looking for a software product available on PC (80286 or 80386)
>which makes it possible to:
>1.  execute a DOS-application within a UNIX environment (any UNIX
>    environment available on PC will do), and to
>2.  have interprocess communication between a UNIX-task and the
>    DOS-task.
>All help on this matter will be extremely helpful.  Please send replies
>by mail to btmcrc at kulcs.  Thank you.
>
>Dr. Rik Verstraete
>Alcatel Bell Telephone, Research Center, Antwerp
>tel: +32 3 2407747, fax: +32 3 2377383

I don't have any of the DOS emulators for UNIX but I am sure that many
people will suggest one.  As for inter-process communication, I doubt
if that specifically exists but here is how I would do it.  Use mknod
to create a UNIX pipe (or 2, input and output).  The DOS program can
open this pipe as a file and read and write to it.  The UNIX process
can do the same and you have your IPC.

As I don't have (or want) DOS under UNIX, I may be off base on this and
welcome comments or corrections if there are better ways.

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