On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 12:07 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> But I'll see if I can ask someone at Microsoft about it. My guess is
> that they provide the download because they don't care about it
> anymore, and no one thought to create a web page for it.
That's my guess. Copyright normally becomes an issu
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:10 AM Robert Riebisch wrote:
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> Hi Jim,
>
> > If you want a distraction-free word processor, you might also try Microsoft
> > Word for DOS 5.5. Microsoft released this as a free (gratis) download from
>
> I'm not sure about "free (gratis)".
> IIRC Wd55_ben.exe was releas
Yes, my bad. Thanks for the correction
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On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 3:52 AM Harald Arnesen wrote:
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> dmccunney [04.05.2020 03:52]:
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> > Have fun. EP was originally written for an 8 bit Atari microcomputer
> ^
>
Hi Jim,
> If you want a distraction-free word processor, you might also try Microsoft
> Word for DOS 5.5. Microsoft released this as a free (gratis) download from
I'm not sure about "free (gratis)".
IIRC Wd55_ben.exe was released to fix a y2k bug. So one would still need
a license (real, physical
> Thank you for the pointer. I checked my autoexec.bat, and as set up when
> I installed FreeDOS it loaded mkeyb UK in conventional memory.
as I understand your backslash key doesn't produce any character at
all.
whatever the reason, mkeyb has a debug mode
mkeyb uk /T
here it will show you all
If you want a distraction-free word processor, you might also try Microsoft
Word for DOS 5.5. Microsoft released this as a free (gratis) download from
their website. I covered it in this week's FreeDOS video, on our YouTube
channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIXZtThIkF0
Direct download is he
Dennis - Thank you! You've addressed all of my questions and concerns, esp.
abt loading data via USB thumb drive, and the history of EP and it's
relationship to the later packaged version. I'm going to try to build an
8bit machine at some point. As you can probably tell, although I grew up in
the e
dmccunney [04.05.2020 03:52]:
> Have fun. EP was originally written for an 8 bit Atari microcomputer
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Altair
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