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

I ran into that too. Not being Windows dependent, and having followed
the link, perhaps faked, perhaps not, to the WPUniverse site (perhaps I
should have spent more time checking out ITS rep, but I didn't), I
decided what the hell.


Norton also doesn't like the vdos executable, either, BTW. But again,
what the hell.


So in about 5 minutes, and a little poking around autoexec.txt and
config.txt in the vdos dir, I had a full screen XyWrite up and running.
Not well tested at this point -- again I'm Linux dependent -- but a nice
illusion on Win 7 64-bit. How I like a mirage. I changed un-REM'd
Windows=100 in the config.txt file, and change the autoexec.txt file so
that it switched to the Xy4 directory and invoked editor. A total of
three changes, I think -- I'm back in Linux as I write.


Could delete some files by shelling out to "DOS" -- didn't do much else,
since setting up my work is more complicated than copying in the Xy4
files. Vdos treats C:\vdos as C: -- and that's about what I know so far.


Windows was still running seemingly OK when shelled out to Linux. My
taxes are done, so if I have to reinstall Windows, I have a year or so.


Paul Lagasse
On 04/08/2014 07:50 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:


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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