williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow) (02/12/90)
For some obscure reason, Ventura does not run in dosmerge. Its been a while, but I seem to remember it just hung the dos window, with the window remaining blank. The process had to be killed from another terminal. I am running with an EGA monitor. Anyone know any reasons for this? Ventura runs fine under native DOS. Also, does anyone know of other 386 unix flavors that have dos compatibility software that Ventura will run with? Thanks. -wat- --- An it harm none, do what you will.
jrh@mustang.dell.com (James R. Howard) (02/13/90)
In article <131672@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow) writes: > > For some obscure reason, Ventura does not run in dosmerge. Its > been a while, but I seem to remember it just hung the dos window, with > the window remaining blank. The process had to be killed from another > terminal. I am running with an EGA monitor. > > Anyone know any reasons for this? Ventura runs fine under native > DOS. > > Also, does anyone know of other 386 unix flavors that have dos > compatibility software that Ventura will run with? > > Thanks. > If I remember correctly, VP/ix runs Ventura pretty well. I do think that standard VGA 640x480 is about the most you can get though, since the drivers typically can't access extended modes and custom cards under VP/ix. For example, The GPX 1024x800 from Renaissance will not "install" it's drivers under DOS since the drivers don't have hardware access to the card. They think it's not a GPX. At any rate, even with the GPX, you can get programs to run 640x480. -------------------------------------------------------------- James Howard ..cs.utexas.edu!dell!mustang!jrh or jrh@mustang.dell.com "I've got a firm policy on gun control, if there's a gun around, I want to be the one controlling it." -- Clint Eastwood --------------------------------------------------------------
jde@everex.UUCP (-Jeff Ellis) (02/14/90)
In article <131672@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> williamt@sun.UUCP (William A. Turnbow) writes: > For some obscure reason, Ventura does not run in dosmerge. > Also, does anyone know of other 386 unix flavors that have dos >compatibility software that Ventura will run with? I have run Ventura with VP/ix under ESIX Rev. C. I have tried the pro additions also. I have not seen any problems, well...... printing takes a long time! -- Jeff Ellis ESIX SYSTEM/V UUCP:uunet!zardoz!everex!jde US Mail: 1923 St. Andrew Place, Santa Ana, CA 92705
dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien) (02/15/90)
In article <469@everex.UUCP> jde@everex.UUCP (-Jeff Ellis) writes: >I have run Ventura with VP/ix under ESIX Rev. C. >I have tried the pro additions also. I have not seen any problems, >well...... printing takes a long time! VP/IX at Rev 1.1.1 still has the old same problem of only doing output to the lp process every MAXSLICE clockticks. When you install VP/IX now, they set MAXSLICE from the default of 100 to 25, but you can get marginally improved printer output rate (still have to do that silly printer flush garbage) by setting MAXSLICE to 15 or so. I didn't get any better rate by going to 10, anyway. -- Dave Remien +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ WINCO Computer Engineering Group {uunet|bigtex}!pmafire!dave or rzd@inel.gov "Dave Barry for President"
gkm@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (gary.k.mc nees) (02/16/90)
With regard to printing under Ventura Publisher taking a long time, I would like to share a simple way around the time problem. While its true that if one prints directly to the LPT1: device it takes like forever. But if you print to a file and then sent the file to the printer (by cat in connected directly) the printing takes much much less time. Hope this helps. Gary McNees
petri@digiw.UUCP (Petri Alhola) (02/17/90)
In article <469@everex.UUCP> jde@everex.UUCP (-Jeff Ellis) writes: >In article <131672@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> williamt@sun.UUCP (William A. Turnbow) writes: >> For some obscure reason, Ventura does not run in dosmerge. >> Also, does anyone know of other 386 unix flavors that have dos >>compatibility software that Ventura will run with? > >I have run Ventura with VP/ix under ESIX Rev. C. >I have tried the pro additions also. I have not seen any problems, >well...... printing takes a long time! > > I am using ventura with VP/ix 1.1 and it works nicely. It is true that printing is slow in big files. I use Ventura and Windows 2.1 and Corel DRAW drowing program and i do printing with Postscript laser connected in my 386/ix server. The fastest way to do is printing into file. It is wery easy with ventura and Corel DRAW. Then just switch into other virtual console and print file out. and it ih 100 times faster. Petri Alhola petri@digiw.fi