Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, Yes, I was able to extract plain text from OOXML, without any format code, is a first step. But is needed a lot of carefull check of the tags to get the rigth and of paragraf. Make this for example at prompt. 7z e -so -y yourdocument.doc outfile.xml ex doc2txt.ex outfile.xml

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-25 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
Amedee Van Gasse schreef: Eric Auer schreef: Hi :-) I think WordPerfect 5.1 was a really popular word processor for DOS, much more suited for DOS use than graphical Word versions today... The ODF and MS-OOXML formats are, as far as I remember, both actually renamed ZIP files with several

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS USB installation

2009-01-25 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Some options: a) installing just means creating MBR, creating bootsector, copying system files plus copying some applicaitons, there is no force to use an installer, you can do this copying steps yourself b) you can boot grub4dos from USB and emulate then the freedos installer iso and install to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS USB installation

2009-01-25 Thread kd4d
Will the EEEpc boot from a USB flash drive? If so, install FreeDOS on the USB flash from another computer, boot it on the EEEpc, and install FreeDOS normally on the EEEpc. Many (probably most) computers with modern BIOSs will recognize a USB flash drive if it is installed at boot time. This