I am using edit at the moment,so it might be safer to stick with that. By safer, I mean not installing windows, which also contains too many distractions!
On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 11:43 Joao Silva, <joao1...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you go to WIndows 3.1 you have write. > > If you want to stick to dos get edit.com from DOS, i'm using it and works > just fine. > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:37 AM John Vella <john.ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ooh, that's good to know. I'll have to check how many lines per chapter. >> >> I'm also tempted to dig out another old drive, install windows 3.11 and >> try Microsoft Office 4.3 as I've never used that before. >> >> On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 11:33 Joao Silva, <joao1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> You can use FreeDOS edit, but don't use for big files... can't handle >>> 2968 lines >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:59 PM John Vella <john.ve...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... >>>> Reading a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm >>>> even bothering with wordperfect. I only need a basic text editor. I'm not >>>> interested in spell check, as I'll do that on the editing machine, so >>>> bringing it down to the minimum, freedos and whatever text editor is >>>> included would actually do the job nicely. >>>> >>>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2022, 12:42 Robert Riebisch, <r...@bttr-software.de> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi John, >>>>> >>>>> > So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos >>>>> > and wordperfect. >>>>> >>>>> What do *you* really need from FreeDOS to run WP? >>>>> Probably just the BASE packages. >>>>> Or maybe the kernel + FreeCOM only. >>>>> >>>>> You may also want to look at SvarDOS' floppy images: >>>>> http://www.svardos.org/?p=files&dir=20220314 >>>>> >>>>> SvarDOS is based on FreeDOS, but kernel is currently still from FD 1.2, >>>>> IIRC. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Robert >>>>> -- >>>>> BTTR Software https://www.bttr-software.de/ >>>>> DOS ain't dead https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Freedos-user mailing list >>>>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Freedos-user mailing list >>>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freedos-user mailing list >>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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