Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

[Daniel Hückmann]

You can stream WP 6 for DOS on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_wordperfect6

On Mon, Jul 8, 2024, 22:07 Dick Steffens  wrote:

> On 7/8/24 11:41, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > I don't think you needed a printer driver for WP for DOS only WP for
> Windows.
> >
> > For the DOS version you just needed an HP printer and select Laserjet
> Plus or whatever on a parallel port from the DOS version.
> >
> > If you are running it under 16 bit compatibility mode in W2K, just
> install the generic printer driver, tie it to any modern HP printer (they
> all support even back to PCL 1.0) via USB or whatever, and then do a net
> command in the CMD line to tie LPT1 to the generic printer driver queue and
> you are off and running.
> >
> > Note you should have no problems running WP for DOS under the dosbox
> emulator under win10.
> >
>
> I don't have WP for DOS. It's WP for Windows, so it's running as a
> Windows machine in W2K. However, I'll see if I can find a generic
> printer driver for it, and see if works for my MFP M148dw.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

[Dick Steffens]

On 7/8/24 11:41, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

I don't think you needed a printer driver for WP for DOS only WP for Windows.

For the DOS version you just needed an HP printer and select Laserjet Plus or 
whatever on a parallel port from the DOS version.

If you are running it under 16 bit compatibility mode in W2K, just install the 
generic printer driver, tie it to any modern HP printer (they all support even 
back to PCL 1.0) via USB or whatever, and then do a net command in the CMD line 
to tie LPT1 to the generic printer driver queue and you are off and running.

Note you should have no problems running WP for DOS under the dosbox emulator 
under win10.



I don't have WP for DOS. It's WP for Windows, so it's running as a 
Windows machine in W2K. However, I'll see if I can find a generic 
printer driver for it, and see if works for my MFP M148dw.


--
Regards,

Dick Steffens

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

I don't think you needed a printer driver for WP for DOS only WP for Windows.

For the DOS version you just needed an HP printer and select Laserjet Plus or 
whatever on a parallel port from the DOS version.

If you are running it under 16 bit compatibility mode in W2K, just install the 
generic printer driver, tie it to any modern HP printer (they all support even 
back to PCL 1.0) via USB or whatever, and then do a net command in the CMD line 
to tie LPT1 to the generic printer driver queue and you are off and running.

Note you should have no problems running WP for DOS under the dosbox emulator 
under win10.

Ted

-Original Message-
From: PLUG  On Behalf Of Dick Steffens
Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2024 3:53 PM
To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

On 7/6/24 14:34, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I started using Satellite Software's WordPerfect, CalcPerfect, and 
> Draw in
> 1984 and visited their Orem, UT campus in 1985. Used and taugh others 
> to use these products and used the linux version until 2000 when it 
> died.
>
> The author of WordPerfect, Bruce Bastien, just died 
> .
>
>
> While the company made fatal business mistakes the quality of the 
> software set a very high standard, far above Microsoft.
>
> Rich

WP was the best word processor. I loved the feature that showed "reveal codes". 
I still have a copy on my Win 2K virtual machine, but I don't have a printer 
driver for it.

--
Regards,

Dick Steffens

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

[Paul Heinlein]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2024, Dick Steffens wrote:

WP was the best word processor. I loved the feature that showed 
"reveal codes". I still have a copy on my Win 2K virtual machine, 
but I don't have a printer driver for it.


The reveal-codes feature was among my favorites. If you botched some 
bit of formatting, you didn't need to re-do it; all that was necessary 
was to move the opening or closing formatting code.


WP came with the shell menuing system that allowed job backgrounding 
and foregrounding within DOS. You could fire up WP and use it for a 
while, then keep it in memory while using the shell menu to, say, 
start a DOS shell or whatever. The WP process just hung around waiting 
to be brought to the foreground.


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