Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> Is this possible now?
>
> Installing Free Dos loading in a copy of Word Perfect 5.1
> that can also use the system printer under CUPS?
You can certainly drive the system printer using DOSEMU. However,
how well this will work depends on what type of printer you're
using. If you're using a printer supported natively by WordPerfect,
then you can just get DOSEMU to run "lpr -oraw" and it will get
passed through without any processing, and behave pretty much as if
it was hooked up directly to the parallel port (albeit without direct
parallel port access--it's faked by the emulator). However, if you
have a modern printer which needs special CUPS drivers, which can't be
driven by WordPerfect directly, you'll basically need to see if you
can find a PostScript printer driver for WordPerfect to use--then it
will send the PostScript directly to CUPS, which CUPS will happily
print one any type of printer. You might need to fiddle with
timeouts--DOSEMU can't always tell when jobs end, so it ends the job
after a delay.
WRT WordPerfect itself, can't see why it wouldn't work; I've run
plenty of software in DOSEMU without trouble. If FreeDOS doesn't
work, then try a copy of "real" MS-DOS, PC-DOS or DR-DOS.
Regards,
Roger
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