Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

2022-03-30 Thread John Vella
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

2022-03-30 Thread Liam Proven
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

2022-03-30 Thread Robert Riebisch
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:

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

2022-03-30 Thread 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

2022-03-30 Thread Björn Morell
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...