[Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Carl Spitzer
I have a newer HP printer and need drivers for DOS and Win311 also Wordstar. The printer is an all in one with USB which I can convert to parallel. Where can I find such? CWSIV -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL,

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Michael B. Brutman
The time to consider DOS compatibility is *before* you purchase the printer. If your printer can do some form of PCL then you are probably safe. A higher end HP laser printer should definitely understand PCL. Old Epson printer emulation and PostScript would be acceptable too - a Brother

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Karen Lewellen
I cannot say firmly if they can be crossed of course. Still printer drivers for wordperfect are kept current, as well as how to use the program in a number of operating systems. visit. www.wpuniverse.com or simply google word perfect for dos. I cannot recall Edwin's direct site right now.

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Carl, Bernd, I have a newer HP printer and need drivers for DOS and Win311 also Wordstar. That depends on what you want to do - I assume most printers can still print plain text, but WordStar would allow you to use custom layout, probably just a collection of Escape codes for, say, bold,

[Freedos-user] Re (2): old machines

2012-12-30 Thread peasthope
From: dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:30:53 -0500 The problem is what you *do* with it [Oberon]. My top uses are text editing and email. There are several good tools including Diff text comparator and RX regular expression processor. For me it's a good

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 08:45 -0600, Michael B. Brutman wrote: The time to consider DOS compatibility is *before* you purchase the printer. If your printer can do some form of PCL then you are probably safe. A higher end HP laser printer should definitely understand PCL. Old Epson printer

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 11:10 -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: I cannot say firmly if they can be crossed of course. Still printer drivers for wordperfect are kept current, as well as how to use the program in a number of operating systems. visit. www.wpuniverse.com or simply google word perfect

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Marco Achury
On linux you can use Abiword or LibreOffice in order to open WP documents. El 30/12/2012 01:39 p.m., Carl Spitzer escribió: On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 11:10 -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: I cannot say firmly if they can be crossed of course. Still printer drivers for wordperfect are kept current,

Re: [Freedos-user] Re (2): old machines

2012-12-30 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:42 AM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:30:53 -0500 The problem is what you *do* with it [Oberon]. My top uses are text editing and email. There are several good tools including Diff text comparator

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, well not exactly. At present wordperfect will only let you print using the parallel port, which is why i suggested this, you mentioned you could use this. In fact Bret Johnson if you are reading this exchange, write me privately. The person who maintains Wordperfect is interested in your

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 13:50 -0430, Marco Achury wrote: On linux you can use Abiword or LibreOffice in order to open WP documents. So a second conversion from WordStar. I also found a free version of StarOffice 7.0 in many versions which is said to do conversions as well then as you point

[Freedos-user] WordStar documents

2012-12-30 Thread Marco Achury
Following this theme from another thread: Word Star internal format is relativelly simple, in DOS era many programs import WS data, and other programs as NortonCommander file manager included WS viewer in order to quick see the text inside WS document. Check at:

Re: [Freedos-user] WordStar documents

2012-12-30 Thread Marco Achury
From the same site: This program includes GPL license, may be you can consider to include it on FreeDOS distro or in the software list http://www.wordstar.org/index.php/downloads/downloads-fileconverters?download=1:wsconen El 31/12/2012 01:11 a.m., Marco Achury escribió: Following this theme