Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-06 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:57 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: >> >>> Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - >> >> It's worth learning about, but DOS is the wrong place

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:57 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > >> Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - > > It's worth learning about, but DOS is the wrong place to do it. The > tools basically don't exist there.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-05 Thread Dale E Sterner
thanks for the reply cheers DS On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 21:57:26 -0400 dmccunney writes: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: > > Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to > understand - > > learn more about it. I use DOS Wordperfect 6.2 for most > everything

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - > learn more about it. I use DOS Wordperfect 6.2 for most everything, just > wonder > if LaTeX can do more. Looks like its a script language like HTML that has > to be

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread Dale E Sterner
Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - learn more about it. I use DOS Wordperfect 6.2 for most everything, just wonder if LaTeX can do more. Looks like its a script language like HTML that has to be compiled to a PS file then converted to pdf by ghost. cheers DS.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread Dale E Sterner
I found one labeled version 7 for DOS. Haven't had time to try it yet. I wonder if it actully works. I like the idea of making pdf on dos. Something to talk about. cheers DS On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 14:56:11 -0500 Rugxulo writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Dale E Sterner > wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, (I'm late replying again!) On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Krys Garnett wrote: > > I'm resurrecting an old desktop for a "distraction free" environment So? Any updates you can tell us? How has it been going? > and I'm wondering whether it is easier or more useful to use Freedos > or MS DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > Thanks for the links update - very useful. Especially ghost 5 for dos. Maybe that's exactly what you want, but I highly doubt it. GhostScript hasn't been directly supported on DOS in years and years. I don't know what the last "offi

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, I know I'm late, but On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > Is there a DOS-english version of LaTeX left to download from anywhere. > > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:25:58 -0400 dmccunney > writes: >> >> The official TeX repository for MS-DOS is >> http://www.ctan.org/te

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-25 Thread Dale E Sterner
Is there a DOS-english version of LaTeX left to download from anywhere. cheers DS On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:25:58 -0400 dmccunney writes: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: > > > Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem > to be > > valid. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-23 Thread Dale E Sterner
Thanks for the links update - very useful. Especially ghost 5 for dos. cheers DS On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:25:58 -0400 dmccunney writes: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: > > > Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem > to be > > valid. > > The

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Louis Santillan
Simtel is mirrored at Archive.org [0][1]. [0] https://archive.org/details/simtelnet_bu_mirror_2013_04 [1] http://ia601702.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/18/items/simtelnet_bu_mirror_2013_04/simtelnet.bu.mirror.2013.04.zip On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:25 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem to be > valid. The first one, to dante.de, is broken for the English language page, which doesn't seem to exist now. The German site is up at http://www.dante.de/ Ghostscr

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Ralf Quint
On 9/22/2014 8:35 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem to be > valid. > Works just fine here... Ralf --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Dale E Sterner
Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem to be valid. cheers DS On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:24:04 +0200 Angel M Alganza writes: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:48:28PM +0100, Krys > Garnett wrote: > > [...] > > It's primarily for academic writing, so decent > > support for foot

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Angel M Alganza
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:48:28PM +0100, Krys Garnett wrote: [...] > It's primarily for academic writing, so decent > support for footnotes, endnotes and tables is [...] Nothing beats LaTeX for academic and scientific writing! http://freedos.gds.tuwien.ac.at/freedos/news/technote/106.html Che

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-14 Thread John R. Sowden
On 09/14/2014 01:48 PM, Krys Garnett wrote: > Hi, > > I'm resurrecting an old desktop for a "distraction free" environment > and I'm wondering whether it is easier or more useful to use Freedos > or MS DOS 6.22, which I have the original 3.5" disks for. > > The system is a Tandon 386SX, 8mb RAM, 51

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-14 Thread Zbigniew
2014-09-14 22:48 GMT+02:00, Krys Garnett : > Hi, > > I'm resurrecting an old desktop for a "distraction free" environment > and I'm wondering whether it is easier or more useful to use Freedos > or MS DOS 6.22, which I have the original 3.5" disks for. > > The system is a Tandon 386SX, 8mb RAM, 512

[Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-14 Thread Krys Garnett
Hi, I'm resurrecting an old desktop for a "distraction free" environment and I'm wondering whether it is easier or more useful to use Freedos or MS DOS 6.22, which I have the original 3.5" disks for. The system is a Tandon 386SX, 8mb RAM, 512mb HD, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives, no USB, no CD-ROM,