Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos
On Fri, 25 May 2012 00:20:02 +0200
Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> wrote:
> 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.
well well..thanks for this interesting read. I even have a copy of PC DOS 2000 that
includes PC DOS 7 with enhanced support for year 2000 (remember that?) and
Eurocurrency, yes ,this is what I'm talking about.
thanks for this link John,
http://etd.vt.edu/howto/workshop/qa.html
my blood is up.
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CK
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