Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-25 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
Amedee Van Gasse schreef: Eric Auer schreef: Hi :-) I think WordPerfect 5.1 was a really popular word processor for DOS, much more suited for DOS use than graphical Word versions today... The ODF and MS-OOXML formats are, as far as I remember, both actually renamed ZIP files with several

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-24 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
Eric Auer schreef: Hi :-) I think WordPerfect 5.1 was a really popular word processor for DOS, much more suited for DOS use than graphical Word versions today... The ODF and MS-OOXML formats are, as far as I remember, both actually renamed ZIP files with several XML files inside. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-24 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
Michael Robinson schreef: (...) It is truly sad that Microsoft, since it doesn't support it's dos versions of Word anymore, won't allow free redistribution of it. The reality is, there are very few old computers left that can only run dos, compared to the number of computers that run Linux

Re: [Freedos-user] Purpose of dos...

2009-01-19 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
On Sun, January 18, 2009 09:02, Jim Lemon wrote: The extensions I'm interested in are mainly those that allow me to access newer filesystems so that the people who use my tests won't whinge as much about having to transfer files from DOS to NTFS or the like. Perhaps something like FUSE

Re: [Freedos-user] Purpose of dos...

2009-01-19 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
On Sun, January 18, 2009 19:28, Eric Auer wrote: As far as web browsing and dos, isn't dos susceptible to almost every single virus on the planet? Another thing, some people want to run dos thinking that it can't browse the Internet. DOS is too old to support modern viruses, so unless you