It's a 486 dx 33, and I will have a look at that link when I get home, thanks!
I'm not sure if I still have it, but I used to have an ide hard drive caddy buried somewhere. I might see if I can dig that out, as I have a few ide drives lying around. On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 12:35 Björn Morell, <b...@bmorell.com> wrote: > Hi John > > Fun with someone using a real machine, I am using an IBM 100DX4 running, > Freedos, DrDos and DSL (Damn Small Linux) all on three compact flash > drives. > > I would try File Wizard and its internal editor, > https://dos.retro.software/downloads/download/290-file-managers/1467-file-wizard-1-35, > like using Norton commander but better. > > What kind of 486 do you run ? > > Bear > > > Den 2022-03-31 kl. 12:49, skrev John Vella: > > I am using edit at the moment,so it might be safer to stick with that. By > safer, I mean not installing windows, which also contains too many > distractions! > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 11:43 Joao Silva, <joao1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you go to WIndows 3.1 you have write. >> >> If you want to stick to dos get edit.com from DOS, i'm using it and >> works just fine. >> >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:37 AM John Vella <john.ve...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Ooh, that's good to know. I'll have to check how many lines per chapter. >>> >>> I'm also tempted to dig out another old drive, install windows 3.11 and >>> try Microsoft Office 4.3 as I've never used that before. >>> >>> On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 11:33 Joao Silva, <joao1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 >>>>>> -- >>>>>> BTTR Software https://www.bttr-software.de/ >>>>>> DOS ain't dead https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Freedos-user mailing list >>>>>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Freedos-user mailing list >>>>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Freedos-user mailing list >>>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freedos-user mailing list >>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing > listFreedos-user@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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