Apropos authoring on DOS Software: As I was looking for someting nifty that would enhance my writing workflow on the computer, I decided for VDE by Eric Meyer writer. ( have a look here: https://archive.org/details/vde-197 ) It actually does sort-of-UTF8 encoding which in my case (German Umlaute äöü ß) is important. And yes: why has it become so cumbersome to switch of internet-connections?!
and let’s mention »Captain Blackbeard« editor. Also great! > On 29.01.2024, at 16:44, Jim Hall via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Mart Zirnask wrote: >>> As for writers with DOS, I recalled and managed to dig up a video with >>> Philip Roth using a standing desk and a Blue DOS Screen - is this also >>> Wordstar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBlVEcMSOGw&t=201 >>> >>> The video is dated 2004, though - back then, I imagine it was not that >>> uncommon yet to use a DOS wordprcessor. > > Louis Santillan wrote: >> >> That looks like Wordperfect for DOS. > > Agreed, that's definitely WordPerfect for DOS at 3:30 in the video. > And a few seconds earlier at 3:25, you can see the WordPerfect > template over the Model M function keys. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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