I down loaded wine and was able to run the label software. Unfortunately I inadvertently deleted the printer driver I had installed for the label printer and am unable to figure out how to get it back.
It’s a brother label printer for a pc PT 2430. not sure what to do to get it back. Thanks. > On May 22, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > thanks lee. I’ll give virtual box a try. > > >> On May 22, 2018, at 12:19 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On May 22, 2018, at 8:24 AM, William Micou <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I’m sure you would have thought of this, but are there still programs that >>> emulate a vitual Window machine? What were those - Boot Camp? VM Ware? I >>> haven’t heard or read much about those lately. >> >> There are a bunch of ways. >> >> Boot Camp uses a separate partition on your Mac’s hard drive to turn it into >> a dual-boot machine. Using Boot Camp, your machine is either a Mac or a >> Windows machine. Not both at the same time. You need a copy of Windows to >> use it. >> >> VirtualBox, Parallels and Fusion all run Windows as a virtual machine. All >> these need a copy of Windows to work. With any of these, your machine is a >> Mac and Windows machine at the same time. >> >> I use VirtualBox because it’s free. I have Windows and Fedora Linux images >> on my machine that run under VirtualBox. I rarely use it. >> >> Another approach is to use one of the Wine variants. Wine lets you run many >> Windows programs without having Windows. It tries to map Windows operating >> system calls to their Mac equivalents. It’s kind of like magically turning >> Windows programs into Mac programs. >> >> The free open source route is WineBottler. A commercial version is Crossover >> Mac. Neither works with all Windows software, so you’d better check their >> compatibility lists before spending time messing with them. I’ve tried both, >> and they both work pretty well—when they work. Crossover was far and away >> the better of the two. But, I haven’t used either one recently. >> >> L^2 >> >> PS/ Wine started out as WINE under Linux, standing for Wine Is Not An >> Emulator. >> --- >> Lee Larson [email protected] >> >> Where a calculator like the ENIAC today is equipped with 18,000 vacuum >> tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum >> tubes and perhaps weigh only 1 1/2 tons. — Popular Mechanics >> March 1949 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Archive: >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=Ayg4a6tMaj3NxExffnp9ohoIi3wzuLFucGNvPi011qI&s=fthbUgYQzM758w7dqsMavc2OPklIGNUbj_EEAV2GA0I&e=> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=mQEKtZfdLjqEPY7Q1JegncXdnHZsv9-D9hCDu530GIc&s=kpGi0_dtoWZHxiIZzhKamtJpsjfkqzATIxgcSFxZaNw&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
