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 dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com 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.

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 dennis.mccun...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - learn more about it. I use 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 sunbeam...@juno.com 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

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 krys.garn...@gmail.com 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

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

2014-09-25 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 dennis.mccun...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Tried your provided link. The links on that page,

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 dennis.mccun...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no

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

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 a...@ugr.es writes: On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:48:28PM +0100, Krys Garnett wrote: [...] It's primarily for academic writing, so decent support for

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 sunbeam...@juno.com 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

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 dennis.mccun...@gmail.com

[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, but

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 krys.garn...@gmail.com: 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,

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, 512mb HD,