> > This file in prinzipal is a preconfigured bootable dosemu hdimage,
> > containing the FreeDos kernel and _one_ DOS-Application fired up in
> > the config.sys via 'shell='. To start a *.dexe you need no special dosemu
> > configuration, it will run 'out of the box'.
>
> Interesting. You realise that with a little hacking of the X code you
> could make Linux the first OS to support secure DOS applets under
> netscape ;)
>
> Alan
Well Alan, I'm seeing the smiley above, so I'm not sure you are kidding
with me ;)
Anyway, it may be sufficiant to have a mimecaps entry pointing to a
modified dosemu mkdexe script to pack an incoming *.exe into a hdimage.
Because this one then would be totally isolated, a virus infected *.exe
could only destroy the hdimage, ... but this one would be a tempfile
anyway ;-) So yes, this would be a secure DOS applet under Linux.
Hans
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