I second the vote for VP51 (which still works great under Windows XP, BTW), and the later windows (9, 10, etc) versions were quite nice as well. Much easier to format tables and pages than Word, IMO. That's one complaint I have about OO, that it's a Word work-alike, rather than WP.
D > -----Original Message----- > From: Marco Antonio Achury Palma [mailto:marcoach...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:43 PM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS > > My all times favorite DOS word processing program was > WordPerfect 5.1, has a very hard learning curve, but once you > learn the keystrokes is really eficient, I worked a lot with > it and tested WP6.0 but was very slow on amy 486SLC with 2 Mb Ram... > > With WP you can make things like look for all ocurrences of > [NewLine][NewLine][Tab] and replace to [NewLine][Tab][Tab] I > don't know how to do this with WinWord but by sure you can't > do it without write some VB code. > > Talking about word processing > > Last month I have spend some time studying documentation > about ODF and MS-OOXML file formats. Both are very complex. > There is someone working on a DOS visor program to support > them? I don't dream with advanced features but extract plain > text may be feasible. > > -- > -- > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > Marco A. Achury > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
