Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer
My fav is the internal editor in File Wizard :) Den 2022-03-30 kl. 18:35, skrev Louis Santillan: FreeDOS Edit, SETEdit, vi, pico. All great basic DoS text editors. On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 4:59 AM John Vella wrote: I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even bothering with wordperfect. I only need a basic text editor. I'm not interested in spell check, as I'll do that on the editing machine, so bringing it down to the minimum, freedos and whatever text editor is included would actually do the job nicely. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer
FreeDOS Edit, SETEdit, vi, pico. All great basic DoS text editors. On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 4:59 AM John Vella wrote: > I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading > a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even > bothering with wordperfect. I only need a basic text editor. I'm not > interested in spell check, as I'll do that on the editing machine, so > bringing it down to the minimum, freedos and whatever text editor is > included would actually do the job nicely. > ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer
On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 13:59, John Vella wrote: > > I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading a > totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even > bothering with wordperfect. I only need a basic text editor. I'm not > interested in spell check, as I'll do that on the editing machine, so > bringing it down to the minimum, freedos and whatever text editor is included > would actually do the job nicely. Depends what you need, what keystrokes you like, etc. I find WordPerfect 6.1 for DOS on a modern machine is quite fun to use. In its day it was considered bloated and sluggish, but on a Core 2 Duo it's blisteringly fast. :-) I personally happen to _like_ MS Word and I have that on some machines and in DOSemu. It too is very very quick on modern-ish (21st century) hardware. If you like the WordPerfect keystrokes and UI (which personally I do not) then the WordPerfect Editor is freeware. It does only plain text but it's even lighter and quicker than the full app. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Productivity.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer
I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even bothering with wordperfect. I only need a basic text editor. I'm not interested in spell check, as I'll do that on the editing machine, so bringing it down to the minimum, freedos and whatever text editor is included would actually do the job nicely. On Wed, 30 Mar 2022, 12:42 Robert Riebisch, wrote: > Hi John, > > > So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos > > and wordperfect. > > What do *you* really need from FreeDOS to run WP? > Probably just the BASE packages. > Or maybe the kernel + FreeCOM only. > > You may also want to look at SvarDOS' floppy images: > http://www.svardos.org/?p=files=20220314 > > SvarDOS is based on FreeDOS, but kernel is currently still from FD 1.2, > IIRC. > > Cheers, > Robert > -- > BTTR Software https://www.bttr-software.de/ > DOS ain't dead https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ > > > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer
Hi John, > So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos > and wordperfect. What do *you* really need from FreeDOS to run WP? Probably just the BASE packages. Or maybe the kernel + FreeCOM only. You may also want to look at SvarDOS' floppy images: http://www.svardos.org/?p=files=20220314 SvarDOS is based on FreeDOS, but kernel is currently still from FD 1.2, IIRC. Cheers, Robert -- BTTR Software https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
