I picked up a copy of EDWIN from this Garbo mirror
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/garbo/pc/editor/
(2 weeks or more behind, but that shouldn't matter for an old DOS program.)
It works on my quirkiest PC, even when booting off the original FreeDOS 1.0 CD
as a live CD.
One thing I will note is that I was CDed into the directory that I unzipped the
files to.
CD \
MKDIR EDWIN
CD EDWIN
\ARC\PKUNZIP \WINDOWS\DESKTOP\EDWIN15C
>From there, I could run EDWIN.COM just fine.
Now, at that point, I would get the message about not being able to find the
overlay file if I were in another directory.
CD \WINDOWS\DESKTOP
\EDWIN\EDWIN
Overlay file not found
but once I used EDWINST to tell EDWIN where its home directory is, I could run
EDWIN from any directory.
CD \EDWIN
EDWINST
(enter, enter ... give the home directory as C:\EDWIN)
CD \WINDOWS\DESKTOP
\EDWIN\EDWIN
LM -- does EDWIN work when you're CDed into the directory?
If not, does it work after replacing EMM386 with JEMM386?
> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:15:36 +0200
> From: aitor...@gmail.com
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working
>
> Hello,
>
> 2009/6/6 LM <lme...@yahoo.com>:
> > I had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard
> > drive. The first time, I tried to pick an image on bootup and the system
> > locked up. Second time, I left it as default. I guess I'm not very
> > familiar with the programs that installed with FreeDOS (other than the
> > basic DOS stuff), because I got on and wasn't sure where to get started. I
> > have a large cabinet full of legacy hardware and software, so I decided
> > perhaps I should go back to the programs on DOS I'm most familiar with just
> > to get going. My experience was that about half of the ones i tried on
> > FreeDOS worked.
>
> "to pick an image on bootup", what do you mean?
>
> > WordPerfect 6.0 appears to work fine. Was very happy to see that. My
> > favorite DOS programming editor
> > (ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/editor/edwin15c.zip) fails and won't run. Has
> > anyone been able to get edwin working on FreeDOS?
>
> A pitty that garbo seems to be unreachable from here right now, if
> someone knows of an alternative download site...
>
> Aitor
>
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