Go to where you got the preconfigured WP and let them fix it

[quote="Dominus"]Go to where you got the preconfigured WP and let them fix it[/quote]
Unfortunately I cannot go to the original source. I have this working on a desktop machine with the defaults. The machine I'm trying to configure is a notebook. I have since changed the keyboard settings in dosbox.conf to keyboardlayout=cf48 as this is a Canadian bi-lingual keboard and the keboard works correctly in a window, but no typing appears in full screen mode; however, when I exit full screen the typing is there. I cannot use this program in a window, it must be full screen. Can you help me please?

Change output= in dosbox.conf to a different value.

Unfortunately I cannot go to the original source.

What is the source and who did the preconfiguration?

[quote="wd"][quote]Unfortunately I cannot go to the original source.[/quote]
What is the source and who did the preconfiguration?[/quote] The source is: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/wpdosbox64.html and since I do not belong to "Columbia University" I can't ask for help there. Re:
change output I have tried all the values and they didn't work.

isn't that the work of that emel.... guy that flooded our dev forum a while ?

Are you sure that you are actually changing output=?

I've seen the issue you are talking about and it's not wordperfect specific. It happens when using a videocard/drivers that aren't compatible with output=surface.

Change the setting in dosbox.conf, execute DOSBox and then type "output" into the DOSBox CLI to verify that it's using the right setting.

Also verify that you are using DOSBox 0.74 (type "ver" into the DOSBox CLI) and upgrade your video drivers.

@qbix: I thought of that as well.

But is WOrd Perfect freeware?
I guess not, so the answer to this problem should be something like... We don't care?

I have tried all options for output, and confirmed them in dosbox.exe. None of the outputs make a difference. I can see my typing in a window, but cannot see my typing in full screen, but if I exit full screen what I have typed is in the document. WP51 is a dos program, it is not freeware but it is no longer supported.

WP51 is a dos program, it is not freeware but it is no longer supported.

abandonware, yadda yeah...

"Also verify that you are using DOSBox 0.74 (type "ver" into the DOSBox CLI) and upgrade your video drivers.[/quote]"
Sorry, forgot to reply to this part. Yes I am using DOSBox 0.74, and the most recent video drivers.

The problem is solved. I wasn't duplicating the changes to the sharedsettings.conf file, the key was the keyboard layout.
Thanks so much for everybody's help.