Re: DOS printing under VMware (v-DOS)

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

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=navbar
> http://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; eudora="autourl">
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.