[vox-tech] Installing dosemu Debian help please

[Dick Ely using JPS-SMTP & POP]

Lugod Debian People:

Please Help '

I am using Debian. I app-getted *dos-emu*. it installed fine except at the 
end it said "opening using false"  What does that mean??

It then said I had to separately install dos-emu-freedos.  While installing 
*dos-emu-freedos* it hung during my attempts to untar it.  I gave the 
command   tar -vx {file.tgz}.  It just stared at me and did 
nothing.   There are days I feel like such a fool with this program.

What should I have done?

Thanks,
Stuck
Dick Ely