Re: XyWrite under Linux (possibly)

[Paul Lagasse <pglagasse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

    I have not done that, so I could not answer that. For what I do, I
    have little, if any, requirement for U2, so it was not an issue for
    me. I just wanted to point out that caveat re Linux. It can be a
    very big caveat.
    
    Paul

On 7/27/20 4:09 PM, J R FOX wrote:

I don't think that I would want to just write off the Jumbo U2 library.  Maintaining access to everything might have a better scenario under a Win-7 Guest VM ?

   Jordan

On Sunday, July 26, 2020, 3:36:00 PM PDT, Paul Lagasse <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:
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> http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/linux.html

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