On Thu, 24 May 2012 23:15:02 +0100, Roger wrote in message <20120524221502.gh22...@codelibre.net>:
> 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. ..and it probably doesn't need real hardware either, run it in a virtual machine and tell us how it worked for you. :o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120525030635.48f9d...@celsius.lan
