On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Larry <doc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> pcwrite was a pretty complete shareware word processor that we used
> successfully in a workplace to write reports. It may still be around either
> as share or abandoned.
>
> --- On Sun, 4/12/09, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Is Windows 3.1 worth it and wordprocessing?
> > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 12:39 PM
> > [..]
> > > These days, openoffice is my word processor of choice.
> > On a
> > > freedos system, that isn't an option. I wish freedos
> > had a
> > > free word processor that is comparable to WordPerfect
> > 6.0
> > > for dos.
> > >
> > > I don't expect freedos 1.1 to have a free word
> > processor, but
> > > it would be nice if there was some action to include
> > one
> > > eventually.
> > [..]
> >
> >
> > If you can find a copy of the old shareware "Galaxy Write"
> > for MS-DOS,
> > this was a good word processor for me. When I was at
> > university, I
> > used Galaxy Write to write my term papers. Not too
> > dissimilar from
> > WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS (granted, not as powerful.)
> >
> > I tried to find a download, but it doesn't seem to be at
> > simtel
> > anymore. Actually, simtel no longer seems to have any
> > MS-DOS downloads
> > these days. Maybe Eric or another webmaster can take simtel
> > off the
> > "Links" page.
> >
> > If you want to see what Galaxy looked like, I used to have
> > screenshots
> > on my web page. Some kind person has mirrored them for me:
> >
> > http://freedos.gds.tuwien.ac.at/jhall/photos/galaxy/
> >
> >
> >
> > -jh
> >
> >
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Word 5.5 for DOS is available for free download from Microsoft...
http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe
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