On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > I only use windows to get on the web for just about everything else I use DOS.
I could not do so. > My software is all loaded on cf chips and I can switch between them very > quickly. Windows, Linux, and applications here are all installed on a Crucial solid state drive, and things are blindingly fast. > Tried to reproduce what I do on Qpro with windows Excell but found it too > difficult to do. Qpro is loaded with powerful macro commands with no > equivalent > on Excell. Excell macro commands don't work well; you have to write Excell > macros with visual basic - just too much work. "Just too much work" is a dangerous notion. You don't switch because you don't want to take the time and trouble involved in learning the new software. But you reach the point where what you have to do to keep using the old software may be more work than switching to something more modern would have been had you been willing to do it. > I like Wordperfect dos better than Word - just too much to learn. I know folks who still stubbornly cling to WordStar, which was my preference back when. You can *do* it, with things like DOSBox or vDOS, but it gets rapidly into "more trouble than it's worth" territory. I have MS Word, Libre Office Writer, and a few other things here, and sometimes use Google Docs. But I actually spend most time in a text editor. Very little of what I do will be printed out, and I don't need the features word processors offer to control what the printed output will *look* like. The occasions where I *do* need that are for things that will be reproduced in quantity, and for that, a word processor is insufficient. I need a full DTP program, and there's nothing in DOS that will meet my needs. > cheers > DS ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
