How feasible would you say this is? I am ready to give up 🤣. I have thought bout maybe freelancing and programmer to make one that would work in dos but this way seemed more logical, once again guys thanks for your help.

I just installed Word Perfect 6.0 in dosbox on my xp laptop (thanks to the mods here great help thanks again) the whole purpose of this was to be able to print on a newer printer. So in word perfect it asks me to select a printer and gives me a directory path to look for the printers, 1. where the …

I wish that would work it seems so much simpler, the computer this is all coming from does not have windows and the wp60 dir is bout 8 megs so I dont know how I will get it over to mine (wish i could just plug in my usb key) I will give the hotkey suggestion

you mean just copy all the files and directories over to my newer comp and then open dosbox and then just try and run it from there? just skip the install?

I am using the physical disks I will check out the readme to create a hotkey I am semi nub so maybe this will help.

My dad has been running his 500K plus a year business on a couple of old laptops running dos 6.2 and word perfect 6.0. I am trying to create or "emulate" his older comps using dosbox. I come to a problem while installing word perfect when it asks to change disks. I opened another instance of dosbox …