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

2009-02-04 Thread King InuYasha
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Michael Robinson wrote: > > > It is truly sad that Microsoft, since it doesn't support it's > dos versions of Word anymore, won't allow free redistribution > of it. The reality is, there are very few old computers left > that can only run dos, compared to the numbe

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

2009-01-30 Thread Alain M.
Just to claryfy a few points... >> standard VGA (640 x 480, 16-colour palette) > Modern graphics cards still support VGA well, but > the 8x14 EGA font is sometimes missing - You can > load a device independant driver to fix this. I use them regularly, never found them missing. Probably somone rem

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

2009-01-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > standard VGA (640 x 480, 16-colour palette) Modern graphics cards still support VGA well, but the 8x14 EGA font is sometimes missing - You can load a device independant driver to fix this. > and eliminate WINDOZE from this completely. You can also dual-boot, without deleting Windows. >

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

2009-01-30 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi, > What I'd like to do is set up a separate partition on my (large, fast) HD > and eliminate WINDOZE from this completely. I can of course buy a copy of > MS-DOS and install this on the new partition. But I think, hang on a > bit, > FreeDOS ought to be just as good? Yes it should be. > QUE

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

2009-01-30 Thread Martin Woodhouse
eforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS 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 >> v

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 f

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.x

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

2009-01-24 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
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 This is the code

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

2009-01-24 Thread Jonathan W.
> > > > I think MS-OOXML also has binary files inside for printer > > settings or similar sometimes. While the full office formats > > are indeed extremely complex, you can often get a quite good > > idea of the text content by unzipping the XML inside which has > > the focus on content, as opposed

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

2009-01-24 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
Michael Robinson schreef: (...) > It is truly sad that Microsoft, since it doesn't support it's > dos versions of Word anymore, won't allow free redistribution > of it. The reality is, there are very few old computers left > that can only run dos, compared to the number of computers that > run Lin

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

2009-01-24 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
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 XML files inside

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

2009-01-23 Thread Travis Siegel
> > PS: I remember writing a similar "viewer" for RTF once in > Pascal, kind of crude but useful. Anybody wanna revive it? Certainly, pass it over here. I'll release dos and osx versions (and linux too if I can get another linux box up and running) Fpc is great. --

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

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Auer
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 XML files inside. I think MS-OOXML also has binar

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

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:26 -0600, Steve Owens wrote: > As Marco said, Word's Find and Replace does this easily - you need to > click on the 'More' button in the Find and Replace dialog, then click > on 'Special', then insert as many of the characters as you like in > sequence - in this case, 'Par

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

2009-01-23 Thread Alain M.
Marco Antonio Achury Palma escreveu: > Last month I have spend some time studying documentation about ODF and > MS-OOXML file formats. Both are very complex. There is someone > working on a DOS visor program to support them? I don't dream with > advanced features but extract plain text may be f

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

2009-01-23 Thread Steve Owens
As Marco said, Word's Find and Replace does this easily - you need to click on the 'More' button in the Find and Replace dialog, then click on 'Special', then insert as many of the characters as you like in sequence - in this case, 'Paragraph Mark' and 'Tab Character'. Works like a charm! I haven'

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

2009-01-23 Thread David C. Kerber
han WP. D > -Original Message- > From: Marco Antonio Achury Palma [mailto:marcoach...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:43 PM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS > > My all times favorite

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

2009-01-23 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
Marco Antonio Achury Palma schreef: > My all times favorite DOS word processing program was WordPerfect 5.1, > has a very hard learning curve, but once you learn the keystrokes is > really eficient, I worked a lot with it and tested WP6.0 but was very > slow on amy 486SLC with 2 Mb Ram... > > With

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

2009-01-23 Thread Robert Riebisch
Steve Owens wrote: > Dunno yet - I plan to try the suggestions this weekend. > I will post 'solved' and explain what worked once I do that. OK, thanks. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ -- T

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

2009-01-23 Thread Steve Owens
Dunno yet - I plan to try the suggestions this weekend. I will post 'solved' and explain what worked once I do that. Thanks again! On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > Steve Owens wrote: > > > Thanks to everyone for the assistance. > > So does it work for you now? > > Robert

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

2009-01-23 Thread Robert Riebisch
Steve Owens wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the assistance. So does it work for you now? Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceFo

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

2009-01-23 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
My all times favorite DOS word processing program was WordPerfect 5.1, has a very hard learning curve, but once you learn the keystrokes is really eficient, I worked a lot with it and tested WP6.0 but was very slow on amy 486SLC with 2 Mb Ram... With WP you can make things like look for all ocurre

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

2009-01-23 Thread Steve Owens
Robert Riebisch wrote: >Please stop promoting your illegal copies! OK, for the record, I bought a legal copy of Word 5.0 when this was available from Microsoft. The source floppies were damaged in a basement flood (I *know*, but I had a small house and lots of stuff), which is why I am using (and a

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

2009-01-23 Thread Robert Riebisch
Eric Auer wrote: > www.oldversion.com/talk/archive/index.php/t-1080.html > claims that the download is only for owners of Word 5.0 ...? This is correct. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --

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

2009-01-23 Thread Robert Riebisch
iw2evk wrote: > My copy of word 6 can be download here: > http://www.perotti.ic.cz/wordprocessor/WORD6DOS.zip Please stop promoting your illegal copies! Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --

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

2009-01-22 Thread iw2evk
Hi, i've used word 6.0 for dos on freedos on 16 and 32 FAT , but with jemm and himem without problem . My copy of word 6 can be download here: http://www.perotti.ic.cz/wordprocessor/WORD6DOS.zip >Try and report.. Roberto iw2evk Eric Auer-3 wrote: > > > Hi! > >> Here is the exact error

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

2009-01-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Here is the exact error text from the Word 5.5 for > MS-DOS load under FreeDOS on a FAT16 partition: > > Illegal Instruction occurred > CS=0530 IP=3006 SS=394A SP=FFDD DS= ES=0317 > EAXX=0100 EBX=0530 ECX=0F00 EDX=0020 > ESI=05A8 EDI=0002 EBP=FFDD > Aborting

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

2009-01-22 Thread Steve Owens
Thanks - I think the boot loader has a startup mode without EMM386; I'll give that a try. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Blair Campbell wrote: > > Here is the exact error text from the Word 5.5 for MS-DOS load under > FreeDOS > > on a FAT16 partition: > > > > Illegal Instruction occurred > >

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

2009-01-22 Thread Steve Owens
Haven't swapped shells yet, but I'll give that a try. I was going to switch over to 4DOS anyway - I actually bought that program way back and always thought it a great set of tools. Thanks! On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Jonathan W. wrote: > Have you tried using a different shell, e.g. 4DOS? Th

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

2009-01-22 Thread Christian Masloch
>> Illegal Instruction occurred >> CS=0530 IP=3006 SS=394A SP=FFDD DS= ES=0317 >> EAXX=0100 EBX=0530 ECX=0F00 EDX=0020 >> ESI=05A8 EDI=0002 EBP=FFDD >> Aborting Program > > Perhaps an EMM386 problem? The EMM displays the message, but doesn't necessarily cause the er

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

2009-01-22 Thread Jonathan W.
Have you tried using a different shell, e.g. 4DOS? This reminds me of some problems I had with the default command shell a while back. I switched over to 4DOS and haven't noticed it since. Skyler On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Blair Campbell wrote: > > Here is the exact error text from the Wo

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

2009-01-22 Thread Blair Campbell
> Here is the exact error text from the Word 5.5 for MS-DOS load under FreeDOS > on a FAT16 partition: > > Illegal Instruction occurred > > > Illegal Instruction occurred > CS=0530 IP=3006 SS=394A SP=FFDD DS= ES=0317 > EAXX=0100 EBX=0530 ECX=0F00 EDX=0020 > ESI=05A8 EDI=

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

2009-01-21 Thread Robert Riebisch
Steve Owens wrote: > When I run Setup.exe, I get a bunch of error statements (about half of > the screen) and the install aborts. Please post the exact error messages! Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/