Hi, On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > I used elvis in DR-DOS 7.03 and FreeDOS, but elvis hasn't been updated since > 2.2_0. > > I tried vim (7.0?) in DOS, had difficulty with more than one file at a time, > now use vi which is nvi, > but this has not been ported to DOS.
I'm very skeptical that VIM wouldn't work properly for you since it's by far the most popular and feature-rich text editor in existence. But anyways, if you can't figure it out, try VILE instead. > I remember how elvis would bog down and become very slow as file size > exceeded 1.5 MB, > no such problem in Linux Slackware and no such problem with nvi in FreeBSD > and NetBSD. Again, VILE works fine, thanks to being compiled by DJGPP (32-bit DPMI). > I tried FDNPKG in FreeDOS, it worked some of the time, but other times it > messed up: > not nearly as well developed as package management in Linux and *BSD. We're very lucky to have someone as talented as Mateusz to contribute. Having said that, even Ubuntu (Snappy??) and FreeBSD (pkg-ng??) seemingly have changed package managers semi-recently, so it's not like they have it all figured out either. > Allegro and other software packages that included DOS support seem to have > dropped DOS support. Yes, that's old news. First they broke the build system (requiring Cmake), then they switched entirely to OpenGL (EDIT: and DirectX, according to Wikipedia) backend. DOS doesn't have OpenGL (except software-only ancient versions of Mesa, which was never widely used in most DJGPP programs). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
