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It is a bit of good fortune that  Tasword Plus Two happens to run sufficiently well enough in NEXT mode to be able use the NEXT WiFi driver and Print server  successfully including the character styles the driver and server support. However, unluckily it does not appear that Tasword's document save and load functions work in NEXT mode. The Plus Two version supports tape and microdrive. Since microdrives are not supportable in NEXT mode AFAIK, I had hoped I could use you the tape storage functions with  the NEXT's TAP IN/OUT function, but this does not work. Even though I can successfully save the whole Tasword program using it's save  customise program function to real tape, saving documents to real tape results in an loading back tape error. On finding this I tried using the PLUS 3  .DSK version of Tasword, which also successfully loads into NEXT mode. This version successfully saves and loads documents to the virtual .DSK, but I get no connection to the print server when using the print command. By default it has the print spooler off, so I suspect the problem is that it uses a different method to print?? The bottom line is that I can use Tasword Plus two to print successfully to  my HP Envy WiFi printer including the driver's supported character styles and the printer server's fonts, but only with a document on the screen, as it does not seem possible to save a document when Tasword Plus Two is loaded into NEXT mode.  With my very limited knowledge, I can't get any further and I suspect it would require some machine code re-write to make either of these programs work with full functionality with the driver/print server in NEXT mode.