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WARNING! Re: DOS printing under VMware (v-DOS)

Norton decided that VdosSetup.exe was malware and summarily deleted it.

More info from Norton:


Behavior

WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score
based on analyzing data from Symantec's community of users and therefore
are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on
Symantec's reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is
based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of
threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories.


The reputation-based system uses "the wisdom of crowds" (Symantec's tens of
millions of end users) connected to cloud-based intelligence to compute a
reputation score for an application, and in the process identify malicious
software in an entirely new way beyond traditional signatures and
behavior-based detection techniques.


Antivirus Protection Dates

  * Initial Rapid Release version March 27, 2009
  * Latest Rapid Release version April 20, 2010 revision 025
  * Initial Daily Certified version March 27, 2009 revision 005
  * Latest Daily Certified version April 20, 2010 revision 024
  * Initial Weekly Certified release date April 1, 2009



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In reply to my post to the VMware forums complaining about the
inability (or at least the yet-to-be-solved difficulty) of printing
from DOS under recent VMware, I got this reply:

>If you want to run DOS (text mode) applications under Windows (32 or 64
bit).

>
>Try the more direct and convenient way with vDos:
>https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/?source=navbarhttp://sourceforge.
net/projects/vdos/.

>
>It won't take minutes to start a virtual XP with your application
>ready to start..
>
>Less than a second, better experience and integration with the WIndows host.

Apparently this system has been created for the benefit of
WordPerfect/DOS users, and I don't see why it shouldn't work with
Xy4, though perhaps not in graphics mode. The reported speed sounds
interesting, and the author seems to know all about TAME:

http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?35978-vDos-a-new-system-for-running-WPDOS-under-Windows

I will definitely give this a try. And though I find that waiting for
a VM to boot up is not onerous on recent fast hardware (a few seconds
rather than a few minutes), it would be nice not to have go through
the whole VM experience just for a DOS program.

One thing that is cheering about this is though we have the feeling
that there are very few of us out there, there appears to be a
substantial community of diehard WordPerfect DOS users, and what
benefits them will presumably benefit us.
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In reply to my post to the VMware forums complaining about the inability
(or at least the yet-to-be-solved difficulty) of printing from DOS under
recent VMware, I got this reply:




If you want to run DOS (text mode) applications under Windows (32 or 64 bit).

Try the more direct and convenient way with vDos:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/?source=navbarhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/.


It won't take minutes to start a virtual XP with your application ready
to start..


Less than a second, better experience and integration with the WIndows host.



Apparently this system has been created for the benefit of WordPerfect/DOS
users, and I don't see why it shouldn't work with Xy4, though perhaps not
in graphics mode. The reported speed sounds interesting, and the author
seems to know all about TAME:


http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?35978-vDos-a-new-system-for-running-WPDOS-under-Windows



I will definitely give this a try. And though I find that waiting for a VM
to boot up is not onerous on recent fast hardware (a few seconds rather
than a few minutes), it would be nice not to have go through the whole VM
experience just for a DOS program.


One thing that is cheering about this is though we have the feeling that
there are very few of us out there, there appears to be a substantial
community of diehard WordPerfect DOS users, and what benefits them will
presumably benefit us.

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