On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:37 AM Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Do you know if they are literally one single disk image simply split into > pieces? If so, there are file joining programs to perform this function. > > Come to think of it, most un-archivers can reassemble the split files into > one, but it depends on how the file was split in the first place.
No, WP and the like had multiple floppies, and you installed by inserting one at a time. This was not one big image split into pieces, If he can open the floppy image files one by one and extract the contents somewhere else, he can likely create a directory with a WP6 instance that may be usable. Assuming he can get at the floppy contents, there's a useful fan site detailing how to run it under vDOS (Windows only) or DOSBox (Windows and Linux) http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/ I successfully run WS7 under vDOS, and VDE (a DOS WordStar clone) under both vDOS and DOSBox. And I run VDE on an Android tablet using an Android port of DOSbox. I was never a fan of WP for DOS, and haven't played with it under vDOS/DOSBox. (I used WordStar at the time WP was taking over the market, and saw no practical difference between memorizing WS Ctrl-key combos and WP FKey combos.) ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
