Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Dale E Sterner
From: Dale E Sterner none On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:40:27 + (UTC) Gregg Eshelman writes: > Any plan to share this find? :) > > > On Monday, April 24, 2017, 9:07:19 AM MDT, Dale E Sterner > wrote:It is pure dos abandoned when corel

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread dmccunney
From: dmccunney On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > On Monday, April 24, 2017, 9:29:48 AM MDT, dmccunney > wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: >>

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread dmccunney
From: dmccunney On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > It seemed strange that a version of Quattro Pro following 5 would be 5.6 as opposed to 5.1 or 5.5. Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember Dale

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Dale E Sterner
From: Dale E Sterner I think there must have been a 5.5 otherwise you wouldn't have a 5.6. I only use the wordperfect off the disk - yet. Some lady on the web sells a dos wordperfect update to 6.2 and I also bought that - Corel autherized. cheers DS On Sun, 23 Apr 2017

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Dale E Sterner
From: Dale E Sterner For the most part dos moves well between machines. Did have trouble with cutemouse & jemmex. On some machines they hang up. What is the difference between Lubuntu & Ubuntu. What difference does the L make. cheers DS On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:29:26

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread dmccunney
From: dmccunney On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > My experience with Gnumeric is favorable. There are differences in syntax and navigation with Quattro Pro for DOS. > > Quattro Pro three-dimensional spreadsheets are

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
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Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Dale E Sterner
From: Dale E Sterner I run my pure DOS on a CF chip and move it from one machine to another on a cf chip. Try doing that with windows. Running DOS on windows is like turning it into a parasite. cheers DS On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:29:06 -0400 dmccunney

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Dale E Sterner
From: Dale E Sterner thanks On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:23:17 -0700 Ralf Quint writes: > On 4/24/2017 11:03 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > What is the difference between Lubuntu & Ubuntu. > > What difference does the L make. > The windows manager used... >

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread dmccunney
From: dmccunney On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I think there must have been a 5.5 otherwise you wouldn't > have a 5.6. As it happens, there was, as Felix Miata noted. But versions *can* be skipped by vendors. > I

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Ralf Quint
From: Ralf Quint On 4/24/2017 11:03 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > What is the difference between Lubuntu & Ubuntu. > What difference does the L make. The windows manager used... Ubuntu, as in the main distro, is using Gnome 3 as the default window manager (after they finally

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread dmccunney
From: dmccunney On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I run my pure DOS on a CF chip and move it from one > machine to another on a cf chip. Try doing that with windows. You can't. Windows will detect it's on a new machine,

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
From: "Thomas Mueller" from dmccunney: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > It seemed strange that a version of Quattro Pro following 5 would be 5.6 as opposed to 5.1 or 5.5. > Versions are frequently skipped when software is

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread dmccunney
From: dmccunney On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > For the most part dos moves well between machines. > Did have trouble with cutemouse & jemmex. On > some machines they hang up. So even DOS can be sensitive to hardware

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Dale E Sterner
From: Dale E Sterner It is pure dos abandoned when corel went to windows. Sounded like it came out of the trash can type. It is somewhat unfinished - a few nasty bugs but nothing to make it unusable. There was no documentation with it. Just a corel factory made cd. Its a

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Eric Auer
From: Eric Auer Hi Dale, is this actually a version of DOS? Or just an unreleased intermediate version of wordperfect? And of course, what is included? Which license? Cheers, Eric ps: you forgot to update the subject in your freedos-user mail, it still says "wifi on dos"

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-05-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
From: "Thomas Mueller" from Dale Sterner: > On Ebay I purchased a cd with unreleased Corel dos > software. There would have been a 5.6 version had it been > released. Some woman got it from a boyfriend who > worked for Corel and then sold it on Ebay for about $150. > I was

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-25 Thread Dale E Sterner
none On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:40:27 + (UTC) Gregg Eshelman writes: > Any plan to share this find? :) > > > On Monday, April 24, 2017, 9:07:19 AM MDT, Dale E Sterner > wrote:It is pure dos abandoned when corel went > to windows. > Sounded like it

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-25 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > On Monday, April 24, 2017, 9:29:48 AM MDT, dmccunney > wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: >> I think there must have been a 5.5 otherwise

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > My experience with Gnumeric is favorable. There are differences in syntax > and navigation with Quattro Pro for DOS. > > Quattro Pro three-dimensional spreadsheets are practically impossible to > import, even Excel

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The original WordStar for CP/M was written in Z-80 assembly language by Rob Barnaby, in about a month. He was the principle coder on it until the last release prior to 4.0. When he left the company is when thing started to go downhill for MicroPro. WordStar for DOS used slow DOS system

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from dmccunney: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > It seemed strange that a version of Quattro Pro following 5 would be 5.6 as > > opposed to 5.1 or 5.5. > Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember > Dale said this was

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Any plan to share this find? :) On Monday, April 24, 2017, 9:07:19 AM MDT, Dale E Sterner wrote:It is pure dos abandoned when corel went to windows. Sounded like it came out of the trash can type. It is somewhat unfinished - a few nasty bugs but nothing to make it

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread Dale E Sterner
A lot to learn. thanks On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:27:13 -0400 dmccunney writes: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: > > For the most part dos moves well between machines. > > Did have trouble with cutemouse & jemmex. On > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread Dale E Sterner
thanks On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:23:17 -0700 Ralf Quint writes: > On 4/24/2017 11:03 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > What is the difference between Lubuntu & Ubuntu. > > What difference does the L make. > The windows manager used... > > Ubuntu, as in the main distro, is using

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > For the most part dos moves well between machines. > Did have trouble with cutemouse & jemmex. On > some machines they hang up. So even DOS can be sensitive to hardware differences. :-p > What is the difference

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread Ralf Quint
On 4/24/2017 11:03 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > What is the difference between Lubuntu & Ubuntu. > What difference does the L make. The windows manager used... Ubuntu, as in the main distro, is using Gnome 3 as the default window manager (after they finally abandoned that stupid Unity carp),

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread Dale E Sterner
For the most part dos moves well between machines. Did have trouble with cutemouse & jemmex. On some machines they hang up. What is the difference between Lubuntu & Ubuntu. What difference does the L make. cheers DS On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:29:26 -0400 dmccunney

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I run my pure DOS on a CF chip and move it from one > machine to another on a cf chip. Try doing that with windows. You can't. Windows will detect it's on a new machine, and complain. But if you run Windows, that's

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread Dale E Sterner
I run my pure DOS on a CF chip and move it from one machine to another on a cf chip. Try doing that with windows. Running DOS on windows is like turning it into a parasite. cheers DS On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:29:06 -0400 dmccunney writes: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > It is pure dos abandoned when corel went to windows. > Sounded like it came out of the trash can type. > It is somewhat unfinished - a few nasty bugs but nothing > to make it unusable. There was no documentation > with

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I think there must have been a 5.5 otherwise you wouldn't > have a 5.6. As it happens, there was, as Felix Miata noted. But versions *can* be skipped by vendors. > I only use the wordperfect off the disk - yet. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread Dale E Sterner
I think there must have been a 5.5 otherwise you wouldn't have a 5.6. I only use the wordperfect off the disk - yet. Some lady on the web sells a dos wordperfect update to 6.2 and I also bought that - Corel autherized. cheers DS On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 17:52:57 -0400 dmccunney

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-24 Thread Dale E Sterner
It is pure dos abandoned when corel went to windows. Sounded like it came out of the trash can type. It is somewhat unfinished - a few nasty bugs but nothing to make it unusable. There was no documentation with it. Just a corel factory made cd. Its a pity they quit on it. On Sun, 23 Apr 2017

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > It seemed strange that a version of Quattro Pro following 5 would be 5.6 as > opposed to 5.1 or 5.5. Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Dale Sterner: > On Ebay I purchased a cd with unreleased Corel dos > software. There would have been a 5.6 version had it been > released. Some woman got it from a boyfriend who > worked for Corel and then sold it on Ebay for about $150. > I was high bid. Eric Auer: Hi Dale, > is

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Dale, is this actually a version of DOS? Or just an unreleased intermediate version of wordperfect? And of course, what is included? Which license? Cheers, Eric ps: you forgot to update the subject in your freedos-user mail, it still says "wifi on dos"