The config -write file is used to save a copy of DOSBox's internal configuration file. It has nothing to do with printing files.

If you can get PageMaker to "print" to a text-file, you can open the text-file in Notepad (from Windows) and then print the file from there.

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/FAQ

Actually, the best thing to do for PageMaker (or any other Windows program) is to set things up to a file using the PostScript driver. That will let yopu make nice PDF files out of the output files.

What about switching to a virtual machine type program? Can I copy Dosbox's Dos5 files into this envirenment and install Windows3.11 and PageMaker4 and get them to print do you think?

You can download VPC 2007/Qemu/Vmware Server, install MS-DOS in them, Install Windows 3.1 and then your pagemaker program. As for LPT support I don't know.

Yes but I do not have my old Dos floppies so all I have would be the Dox from Doxbox. I could try Linux I suppose.

Download FreeDOS.

I downloaded Freedos-1.0-x86.7z which is quite large at 80 Megs but what do I do with this? Windows (its on xp desktop) donsn't know how to unzip or open it and neither do I.

7zip

OK, I downloaded 7zip, and unzipped what I downloaded - freeDOS 1.0.
All I got was a folder: Machines/freeDOS/freeDOS.xml, 3KB, and another file called FreeDOS.ndi !!! Where's the DOS?

I'm sorry that was FreeDOS.vdi

The FreeDOS.vdi file is quite large at 387,081 KB and I assume it is a "image" of some sort. What do I do with it?

Sounds like you downloaded a VirtualBox image.

If you have VirtualBox then you can use that image with it.

Do I just put it in the path of the virtual box?

I really don't know enough to "use" this type of file. How do you use it to make DOS?

VirtualBox is an emulator. It uses .VDI files as a virtual hard drive.

It appears that you downloaded a copy of FreeDOS that was pre-installed to the .VDI virtual hard drive.

If you download and install VirtualBox and tell it to use the .VDI file that you downloaded then you will have a fully working installed copy of FreeDOS.

Thanks, and do you know how to do this in VirtualBox, I mean what would be the first step.

If I put it inside VirtualBox, will it automaticaly load this as an operating system?

I don't recall and I don't have VirtualBox installed. It uses a GUI so it shouldn't be very difficult.

Thanks for the tips, I will try this.

FeeDos won't run Windows3.11 so I am still trying (in my spare time) to get DosBox to support LPT1 printer port. I am trying Porttalk which installed a driver into the windows driver area, but Page Maker 4 still can't locate an open connection to LPT1.