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Re: XyWrite under Linux (possibly)

I had forgotten, not having upgraded Ubuntu in a while, that it is no longer producing an 386 version. 
It is therefore extremely unlikely that you have access to the 
dosemu:i386 package that I am running, though you might have access to 
another 386 dosemu package depending on the distribution DreamCompute 
offers. You should NOT install the standard dosemu package from Ubuntu 
or any other Debian-based distribution. If you can install from a ppa on 
DreamCompute, follow Edward's instructions to install dosemu2.


Paul

On 7/27/20 9:05 AM, Harry Binswanger wrote:
I didn't struggle enough. Turns out that although I'm in the dosemu 
"instance" of DreamCompute (Dreamhost's mini-site), DOS has not been 
launched. yet. Will read more docs on how to do that.

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 08:49, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
<mailto:hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:


    Paul,

    After much struggling, I have gotten dosemu2 installed and
    operative on my remote site. After more struggling I copied my Xy
    folder to the dos box, but now entering EDITOR.EXE (which dir
    finds) doesn't launch anything. I get Command not found.

    How do I launch?


    On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 18:35, Paul Lagasse <pglagasse@xxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:pglagasse@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

        XyWrite works well under Ubuntu Linux for me. I have depended
        on Ubuntu
        Linux to run Xy4 since the mid-2000s, when I began to be
        concerned about
        running XyWrite on Windows, and am now using it in Ubuntu
        16.04. Dosemu
        needs a few tweaks, in my experience, though I'd have to pour
        through my
        configuration files to remember all I did. I use xsel for a
        two-way
        clipboard, converting codepages when going in and out of
        XyWrite, and I
        modify /etc/sysctl.conf, adding vm.mmap_min_addr = 0, or on rare
        occasions dosemu crashes.

        It's quite speedy. And I'm very happy. But if you are reliant on
        xywwweb.u2, that could be a problem.

        Paul

        On 7/25/20 10:14 PM, Edward Mendelson wrote:
        > Occasionally the possibility of running XyWrite in Linux
        comes up in this mailing list. I haven’t tested XyWrite in the
        dosemu2 DOS emulator for Linux, but WordPerfect for DOS runs
        extremely well under it. There seems to be no reason why
        XyWrite shouldn’t work also. A quick guide is here:
        >
        > http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/linux.html
        >
        >
        >
        -- 
        Paul Lagasse

        pglagasse@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pglagasse@xxxxxxxxxxx>
        610.255.4664

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