On Fri, 25 May 2012 00:20:02 +0200 Roger Leigh <[email protected]> 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. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
