On 03/13/2014 10:43 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
At 20:05 2014-03-12, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
I tried it several years ago, but the lack of printing (to paper) was
a deal breaker for me.
(And if it DOSBOX is able to print to paper printing devices, then
either I didn't realize it at the time or couldn't find a way, or
maybe I'm remembering it wrong.)
I used to use DOSBox to run WordStar. I never needed printing so
I did not hassle with it. (There are builds that will print. The
standard build will not.)
WordStar ran fine. (However, I found VDE (a WordStar-compatible
editor) which I now use instead except for the odd case when a file is
too big for it.)
The DOSBox developers make it very clear that DOSBox is for
games. They make no guarantees that DOSBox will work with non-games.
If you ask for something that is not required by a game, you will get
a no.
[snip]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
I use WordStar 5.5 with bitstream fonts under FreeDos/4DOS with
success. Q1: Why do you use VDE instead of Wordstar? Q2: I also use
WordStar under Ubuntu/Dosemu with success. Can we solve the printing
issue by running Ubuntu/Dosemu and FreeDos/4DOS under a virtual machine?
(go to the FreeDOS4DOS instance to print the documents (we spend most of
our WS use editing and viewing documents, not printing them.)?
John
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