deedee wrote:
I've been using a legacy Windows 3x application, WordStar for Windows, with Wine for a long time.
(Hey, I remember that editor!) What's the most recent version of Wine that works well with it? After a little googling, I was going to point you at what looks like an excellent site on the subject, http://wordstar2.com, but I see you're the maintainer of that site :-)
I recently installed a beta release of Wine compiled for Mandriva Linux (2006.0) - 0.9.22, and a number of problems have occurred with the program. The most critical problem is that WordStar for Windows won't print (it printed from the alpha Wines). I get the error message: "No printer is active. Please use the Windows Control Panel to make a printer active." The win.ini file shows all the printers installed in /etc/printcap correctly and indicates that the printer (which is turned on and local) is the default and active printer. Other programs, such as MS Word, print correctly from Wine. Although I have a "Windows Control Panel," it doesn't provide anything about printers. Another problem is that WSWin does not enter my Windows truetype fonts correctly. It gets the font format and size correct, but the cursor does not move over and it ends up typing every letter on top of the previous letter. ...
Those sound like two very annoying bugs.
What do you suggest I try?
Two ideas come to mind: 1) find which version of Wine introduced the problems or 2) convince a Wine developer to buy a copy so he can do it for you. Looks like the going rate is $25 or so, so it's not an expensive item. (The only version I saw was Wordstar for Windows 2.0, presumably that's what you have?) I recently fixed two problems in Wine that kept Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS from working, and I'd enjoy looking at your problem, but my wrists exploded recently, and I really shouldn't be typing at all :-(
BTW, this Wine is otherwise doing an excellent job of running a number of Windows programs and games on my systems (all currently Mandriva Linux 2006.0). I need the Windows programs to be able to access quite a few large archives of user files and except for the recent problems with WordStar, Wine has worked better (fewer problems with the software) than Windows for running the applications.
That's nice to hear. - Dan _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
