OT WordStar in console mode

Hello,

Perhaps some help here, although clearly off topic. Running WordStar on 
DOSEMU on teh console. Using IBM charset everything looks OK, except no 
cursor. Works fine using XDOSEMU but full screen on teh console is 
easier on the eyes actually, then a little 640x480 box in X.

Any thoughts?

My WP5.1 disk set is located at my old office, so don't know yet if it 
has the same issue.

Thanks

Don Masaoy wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Perhaps some help here, although clearly off topic. Running WordStar on 
> DOSEMU on teh console. Using IBM charset everything looks OK, except no 
> cursor. Works fine using XDOSEMU but full screen on teh console is 
> easier on the eyes actually, then a little 640x480 box in X.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> My WP5.1 disk set is located at my old office, so don't know yet if it 
> has the same issue.
> 
> Thanks
> 
  In case anyone is interested, solved this problem by using monitor 
setting in WS for "PC-ROM or compatible" instead of VGA.

Don Masaoy wrote:
> 
> Don Masaoy wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Perhaps some help here, although clearly off topic. Running WordStar 
>> on DOSEMU on teh console. Using IBM charset everything looks OK, 
>> except no cursor. Works fine using XDOSEMU but full screen on teh 
>> console is easier on the eyes actually, then a little 640x480 box in
X.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> My WP5.1 disk set is located at my old office, so don't know yet if it

>> has the same issue.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>  In case anyone is interested, solved this problem by using monitor 
> setting in WS for "PC-ROM or compatible" instead of VGA.
> 
> 
Noted.  I'm setting up a new system and plan to experiment with DOSEMU 
and some old DOS apps I have, among them WordStar too.

Are you able to print?

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Leon Goldstein wrote:
> 
> Don Masaoy wrote:
> 
>>
>> Don Masaoy wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Perhaps some help here, although clearly off topic. Running
WordStar 
>>> on DOSEMU on teh console. Using IBM charset everything looks OK, 
>>> except no cursor. Works fine using XDOSEMU but full screen on teh 
>>> console is easier on the eyes actually, then a little 640x480 box
in X.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> My WP5.1 disk set is located at my old office, so don't know yet if

>>> it has the same issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>  In case anyone is interested, solved this problem by using monitor 
>> setting in WS for "PC-ROM or compatible" instead of VGA.
>>
>>
> Noted.  I'm setting up a new system and plan to experiment with DOSEMU 
> and some old DOS apps I have, among them WordStar too.
> 
> Are you able to print?
> 

I haven't tried to on this particular machine (Laptop running Xandros 3) 
I had no problems at all printing on a different machine that ran 
Caldera 2.4, using a generic postcript printer driver in WordStar (I 
think I used the Apple LaserWriter)

I will look at the config file for that machine and post back here....

Although you can print to postscript file too, just adds an additional 
step. I set up my old firm to do that so they could convert their 
wordstar files into PDF files.

Don Masaoy wrote:
<snip>
>> Are you able to print?
>>
> 
> I haven't tried to on this particular machine (Laptop running Xandros 3) 
> I had no problems at all printing on a different machine that ran 
> Caldera 2.4, using a generic postcript printer driver in WordStar (I 
> think I used the Apple LaserWriter)
> 
> I will look at the config file for that machine and post back here....
> 
> Although you can print to postscript file too, just adds an additional 
> step. I set up my old firm to do that so they could convert their 
> wordstar files into PDF files.
> 
A man after my own heart.  I really liked Caldera 2.4.  I still have a 
copy on a multi-boot system.  When I got a HP 1200 laser I couldn't find 
a printer driver for it, but Caldera 2.4.'s WebMin set up a printer that 
works.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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