XyWrite Mac DOSBox Printing

["Fred Weiner" fw1948@xxxxxxxx]

Friends,

Robert Holmgren wrote:

Mac, I could certainly do it (anybody want to give me an x86 Mac
to play with??).

I don't have the resources to send you one, but in every other way encourage you to take the plunge.



From Arnold Robbins UNIX in a Nutshell (O'reilly Media, Inc.):

"Apple's rewrite of their operating system has a core based on Mach and various BSD technologies. The command set is derived from FreeBSD.  Thus . . . Mac OS X is representative of the BSD strain of free Unix-like systems." You may be able to answer your own question with that information; I don't know. I do know that (more than) everything I do in the Mac GUI can be accomplished in Terminal, the *nix front end. Not that I personally have the unix chops down to accomplish that.



Not so. One "mounts" any particular folder from OS X as a separate "drive" in DOSBox. For example, 'mount c /Users/username/Desktop' creates a "c:\" in DOSBox that corresponds to the OS X desktop. Or, 'mount x /users/username/DOS/Xy4'; now x:\ is a "drive" in DOSBox, containing, with it's subdirectories, all of my XY files. From there, any or all manipulations that DOS can do with it's drives is available. For example, in the system I have described in this thread, at the DOSBox prompt I issue 'x:\> move x:\docs\FO.TMP c:\Desktop\myfile.ps' (using 4DOS 'move'), clearing out
FO.TMP for the next time and putting the POSTGHST.PRN PS formatted XY file where I can get to it for
conversion to PDF, and printing. What you, Robert, would be able to do with that kind of
functionality, I can only surmise.


Fred Weiner