On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:26 -0600, Steve Owens wrote: > As Marco said, Word's Find and Replace does this easily - you need to > click on the 'More' button in the Find and Replace dialog, then click > on 'Special', then insert as many of the characters as you like in > sequence - in this case, 'Paragraph Mark' and 'Tab Character'. Works > like a charm! > > I haven't had much experience with WordPerfect, but know many writers > who swear by it. Hard to get hold of a legitimate copy now, though.
Word Perfect 6.0 Dos is great. I have a working backup copy of it, but my install disks are no good. I looked on EBay for it, ridiculously high priced. The Linux version of Word Perfect seemingly never took off. The reality is, Word seems to be the only you have to pay for it word processor that is still selling successfully. I suppose you may still be able to get Word Perfect, but not for dos. 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 or Windows. If people hand out illegal copies of software, it hurts efforts to replace that software with something like open office or ReactOS plus Open Office for example. Why bother with free stuff if you can get commercial software without paying for it? If the open source alternatives catch on, the legal problems of pirating software go away. Read the EULA that comes with Word Perfect. Chances are, you aren't allowed to install it to multiple machines or distribute it over a network. Open office is too heavy for dos anyways. Any efforts to port abiword to dos? How about producing an OSS clone of Windows 3.11 or Windows 98SE? The advantage of doing the latter is that the clone can be made to work with freedos instead of the other way around. I have never felt that Windows NT was a good replacement for dos based Windows. Microsoft did a sloppy job, too many 9x programs want to be run as administrator on an 2000/XP system. There is experimental support of Windows 3.0 I guess, which I don't have, and I question the point of that. Most copies of Windows 3.x are probably disk based and no good anymore. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
