Re: [Freedos-user] Vim is slow

2013-11-04 Thread Miguel Garza
like EDIT but that could reflow text (e.g. wordwrap without carriage return symbols) like Notepad or Microsoft Word 5.5. On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Miguel Garza garz...@gmail.com wrote: I'm playing with vim

Re: [Freedos-user] Vim is slow

2013-11-04 Thread Miguel Garza
I tried deleting that other file from the Vim.exe directory...makes no difference... Okay. So you're sure you're using CWSDPMI r7? I don't know? How do I tell? -- November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers

[Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Miguel Garza
I've got my programs in subdirectories of C:\APPS, and whenever I add a new program, I have to add its path to autoexec.bat like so: set PATH=.;c:\;\LOCALE;\APPS;[all the other paths to the other programs in the APPS folder];\APPS\NEWPROG But now FDOS is telling me my PATH is too long and PATH

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Miguel Garza
Thanks to you both! On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.siwrote: On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:57:50 +0100, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: An alternative solution would be to write an individual batchfile for each program you'd like to run, and place these

[Freedos-user] Config.sys (was Pictview)

2013-10-22 Thread Miguel Garza
Well, thank you for the helpful information re: the config.sys file, viewing PNG files, etc. My original thought is that I would use the fast-booting DOS OS to narrow my focus to just a few activities, and I haven't really done that. Too used to internet, email, etc etc! But I still think it's

Re: [Freedos-user] PictView

2013-10-17 Thread Miguel Garza
I tried about 3 of the mentioned viewers and 2 of the 3 worked well. display was pretty good and lxpic was great! Thanks! I'm interested in viewing the common file formats (jpeg, png, etc) and I was intrigued by Pictview's claim of being able to view Photoshop files (psd). But if I can view

[Freedos-user] emm386, himem.sys, config.sys

2013-10-16 Thread Miguel Garza
Hi, I recently discovered Rufus, the DOS boot disk installer, and installed FreeDOS on my thumbdrive. I think it's pretty neat. Other than occasional command-line use in Windows, the last time I probably messed with DOS was probably about 20 years ago. And I was certainly no programmer then.