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I have a Drivespaced, Doublespaced or Stackered DOS partition. Can Wine run MS Windows binaries located in such a partition?

April 26, 2017binaries dos MS partition run Windows Wine

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I have a Drivespaced, Doublespaced or Stackered DOS partition. Can Wine run MS Windows binaries located in such a partition?

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Yes, but only if the operating system supports mounting those types of drives. There is a Linux file system driver called dmsdos that will allow read/write access to Doublespaced and Drivespace 1.0 drives. More specifically, it supports mounting DOS 6.0 and 6.2 Doublespaced, DOS 6.22 Drivespaced, and Windows 95 Doublespaced compressed partitions (read and write access works fine, but write access is slow). It can be found at ftp://metalab.unc.