gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x56b7f100.hantslug.org.uk.20240': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Tue Feb 6 23:03:20 2007 GMT
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On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 20:44 +0000, John Hunt wrote:
> Hi, my dad's work computer recently died, and he's been meaning to run
> his work stuff on a stable modern platform, but, he swears by the old
> software he uses called framework3 (it's actually quite good!) Problem
> is, framework3 is an old old DOS application.
I remember it well. Friend of mine often talks about it, but only in
between custodial sentences.
Personally I would use QEMU (or other) to create a virtual machine.
Inside that machine I would use some flavour of DOS and the standard
Microsoft (and 3rd party) networking components for DOS to give you
TCPIP. Then use the Microsoft tools such as the "net" command to map a
local printer port to a network shared printer (such as on the host XP
machine).
There are numerous resources for this kind of thing online. A good
starting point is
http://bootdisk.com/
One linked from there which appears to do networking quite easily is
this one:-
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
Even though they are floppies, DOS is incredibly easy to move from one
disk to another. It should just be a matter of formatting the blank QEMU
image C drive as a system disk and copying the necessary files over. It
might need a minor tweak of the config.sys and autoexec.bat to make it
all swing, but shouldn't be too hard.
Let me know if you need some help, I used to be quite a demon with
XMS/EMS UMB and all that garbage.
Cheers,
Al.
