On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Nick Andrew <n...@nick-andrew.net> wrote:
> > > then the network goes, and it all breaks and users complain. > > It doesn't sound like a software problem. > In a sense you are right. But the subtlety of who's fault it is never goes to the person who kicked the wire out, just the IT department as a whole. > > > Now I want to move the rendering of text files to a Linux server (some > > stable ones > > exist here) and hoping to do the same in Linux. > > Would it be possible to run the DOS software in a virtual machine under > linux? > dBaseIV works amazingly well under DOSBox - but they don't want to use it. That's not the problem. The problem is that it's getting hard to find Laser printers that print ascii data streams. Recent HP printers no longer work with character streams. So we have to intercept the print stream and "render" to graphics. Including all the character escapes that make things bigger and bold and so forth. That part is all working fine with the Windows GDI. It seems what I need to do is make a postscript rendering engine for it to work under Linux. Which looks possible, but I'm open to other ideas. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
