ancient version compatibility

[Brian K. White]

Thanks much.
That's about what I was hoping. At least, it's worth trying even if it 
doesn't pan out.
They have an installation that they started as a kid on their dad's 
model II with deskmate 2, then migrated to tandy1000 / PC deskmate 3, 
and by now it's running in virtualbox on linux. Originally he was asking 
if there was a deskmate driver to print postscript to file, to 
eventually get pdfs... Only later it came out he's using filepro. 
Apparently he's been using the app for caving data all that time.
Worst case I can whip up a little awk program to dump the key files into 
csv or xml or post into a mysql db.

I have no idea what features filepro for deskmate had. Like, did it even 
have prc tables? The export command? Print code tables (such that I 
could supply him an hplaser one)? Could you print to file or print to a 
script of your choosing via the command field in printer config like you 
can today? Apparently the unknown version he has is new enough that all 
the data is in the key files.

Until this question, I had no idea that Deskmate was a distinct OS with 
it's own executable format etc. I thought it was just a ui shell like 
DosShell, or Desqview which adds multitasking on top of DOS, but is 
still DOS runs DOS executables. But I figured the files might be 
compatible with the dos version simply because that's probably what you 
would have been porting from.

Now I want to play with it just because it's so odd.

-- 
bkw


On 5/11/19 7:47 AM, Laura Brody wrote:
> As I recall, the data files would be totally compatible with the 
> DOS/Windows version of filePro. I am pretty sure that the screens 
> would be too.
>
> Wow, that was a long time ago....
>
> Laura Brody
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 5:33 AM Brian White via Filepro-list 
> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com 
> <mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>> wrote:
>
>     Here's a good one.
>
>     Someone on a facebook vintage computer group has a bunch of data in a
>     Deskmate version of fp.
>
>     Anyone know if the files would be directly usable by a dos/win
>     version, or
>     would they need xfer like if you were going from win to linux?
>
>     -- 
>     bkw
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