Hi all: FreeDOS newbie here (hopefully not needing the ancient internet flak jacket).
I used to run CPM/DOS/*nix in the ancient days of punch cards, paper tape, 9-track reelsm, and floppies of the 8-inch and 5.25 inch sorts. Alas, when I retired first, many years ago, I was corrupted with that Winblows thingie that seems to run rampant these days. I have seen and tried the FreeDOS 1.2 suite and would like to try the 1.3 when it is finally out. The FreeDOS 1.3 RC3 was pretty good when I loaded it up. My goal is to recreate my old dos vi/nroff/troff/TeX suite on FreeDOS. We had roff and nro-ish things even on CP/M. Vi did not come along well until Calvin on dos. We also had Elan's mostly complete nroff/troff. TeX compiled somewhat out of the box on dos but took forever to build. It was a bit primitive. But, with a set of *nixy tools, it was a qood writing box, for years. My heart yearns for that simplicity, once again. I have an XP 586 box that is ready for the recyclers. But, it would be fun to slap a big drive in it and try FreeDOS. When I tried the writing tool set, it mostly came up and ran, but troff crashed it. I don't think it was out of memory. But, something was just enough off to stop it. I would consider groff and friends, if they are known to work. I think the early versions will. So, are there any good working sets of vi/nroff/troff/TeX that are known to run well on FreeDOS 1.3? ManyThanks! Bob
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