Hi!

You can use FreeDOS edit, but don't use for big files... can't handle 2968
lines

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:59 PM John Vella <john.ve...@gmail.com> 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 check, as I'll do that on the editing machine, so
> bringing it down to the minimum, freedos and whatever text editor is
> included would actually do the job nicely.
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2022, 12:42 Robert Riebisch, <r...@bttr-software.de> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>> http://www.svardos.org/?p=files&dir=20220314
>>
>> SvarDOS is based on FreeDOS, but kernel is currently still from FD 1.2,
>> IIRC.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Robert
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