Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

2012-05-25 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:01:55AM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: I take it this isn't about using DOSMU but a virtual machine with a FAT16 file system like going back to 1987. How can I do that? You can install virtualbox for example. Within the program you create a harddrive and configure the

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

2012-05-24 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Fri, 25 May 2012 03:10:02 +0200 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..and it probably doesn't need real hardware either, run it > in a virtual machine and tell us how it worked for you. :o) I'll be glad to report back but first a little help: I take it this isn't about using DOSMU but a virtual machine w

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

2012-05-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 05/24/2012 03:10 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: Installing Free Dos loading in a copy of Word Perfect 5.1 that can also use the system printer under CUPS? Ah! A true believer! If I could only get "View Codes" in OO.o! Marc -

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

2012-05-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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 prin

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

2012-05-24 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Fri, 25 May 2012 00:20:02 +0200 Roger Leigh 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

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

2012-05-24 Thread Roger Leigh
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 dep

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

2012-05-24 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > Installing Free Dos loading in a copy of Word Perfect 5.1 > that can also use the system printer under CUPS? Ah! A true believer! IMHO think WPDOS to work with CUPS is more trouble than it's worth. The following page suggests tha

Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

2012-05-24 Thread Charles Kroeger
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? Is this hopeless? -- Thanks CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis