Printing from WordPerfect 5.1, VP/ix, Esix

[Bill Heiser]

Many thanks to Jim Chandler who came up with the following
solution to the problem of trying to print from WordPerfect 5.1
under VP/ix on an Esix system!

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From: world.std.com!uunet!auspex!sunburn.West!beagle!Jim.Chandler

I have successfully gotten this to work with some minor workarounds.  First,
I am using ESIX Rev. D, WP 5.1 and VPIX 1.2.  I first created a directory to
use as a virtual d drive, on my system /usr/chandler/vpix/wp51.  Next I used
edlin to edit my autoexec.bat file and I included the following line:

dosmount d:/usr/chandler/vpix/wp51

This will supply you with a drive called D: whose files will actually be
located in /usr/chandler/vpix/wp51.  Next install WP5.1 to D:.  You should
have no problem from here on out except that printing is useless, so here
is workaround number two.  Go into the printer menu Shift F7.  Now edit the
printer that you are using so that it prints to a file.  On my system
D:\text\output.prn.  Now when you print something it goes to this file.  If you
print something else it will overwrite it.  A small (LARGE??) inconvience.
After it is done printing, I copy the output file to /dev/lp1 and it works
great.

Jim Chandler
asuvax!xroads!beagle!chandler
chandler at beagle.uucp


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