Eric Auer wrote: [..] > Interesting that MS Word for DOS looks a bit like EDIT, but > with char style highlighting and a graphical preview :-D
Yes, it's probably not surprising that the company that made MS-DOS Edit and Word for DOS would make them look a bit similar. I used Microsoft QuickC in the early 1990s, that looks similar too. :-) What I like best about Word for DOS 5.5 is that it uses a more "modern" keybinding set. I read somewhere that Word used to use different keys, but then they updated the keys in Word for DOS 5.5 to be more like Windows? So you can use things like ctrl+arrows to jump around a document, shift+arrows to select text, and even ctrl+shift+arrows to select words. And ctrl+b for bold, ctrl+i for italic, and ctrl+u for underline. And ctrl+c, ctrl+x, and ctrl+v for copy, cut, and paste. You don't have to remember "new" keys to use this version of Word, if you are already used to the "modern" keybindings (as I am, at least for a word processor). > Does the distro include error 200 patchers and slowdown tools? You can find the answer by clicking on "What's included" on the "Download" page: https://freedos.org/download/ The "What's included" link brings you to the report: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/official/report.html And yes, SLOWDOWN is in there. So it TP7P5FIX. Click on the names in the report for details. For example: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/tp7p5fix.html > UEFI related question, how are projects to provide a BIOS as > loadable EFI module doing these days? Any hot ones to name? I don't know. Do you have one to suggest? > Of course I still recommend dosemu2 as alternative for VM > image mounting ;-) Good that we have vmware vmsmount, too. I think everyone has a favorite! :-) That's why on the "Download" page, we have links to different PC emulators or virtual machines you can use to install FreeDOS, including VirtualBox, QEMU, and Dosemu2 (Linux). > Thanks for the verbose video! Thanks! I'm glad you liked it! Jim > > PPS: https://www.lemonde.fr/resultats-elections/ seems very brown :-( This is completely unrelated to FreeDOS and is very off-topic. From "remind.txt":* > Keep posts on-topic. We set up this mailing list to discuss FreeDOS > issues. * https://freedos.org/forums/remind.txt .. linked from the first paragraph on https://www.freedos.org/forums/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
