Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing (comp, printq)
Hi, > LGPL 2: share Where does it say that it's LGPL ? Christian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS
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. > > 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 to layout etc, and then > removing all XML tags and attributes. Example: > > ... > Hello > ... > > ...would simply be reduced to "Hello", easy to read in DOS. > Does anybody know a nice program for that for DOS? When in > doubt, you can always use the DJGPP port of GNU textutils, > for example the SED tool, to remove the XML markups... ;-) I know there is a program on Linux that does exactly that, but I forgot its name. Shouldn't be hard to find. If someone could port that... -- Amedee -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS
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 Linux or Windows. (...) > Open office is too heavy for dos anyways. Any efforts to port > abiword to dos? How about producing an OSS clone of Windows > 3.11 or Windows 98SE? The advantage of doing the latter is > that the clone can be made to work with freedos instead of > the other way around. I have never felt that Windows NT > was a good replacement for dos based Windows. Microsoft > did a sloppy job, too many 9x programs want to be run as > administrator on an 2000/XP system. (...) Most old computers that you would want to use for word processing, can run a lightweight Linux and Abiword. That could explain why nobody bothers to write/port a word processor for DOS. Anyway you really don't need a GUI at all when you have things like LaTeX. (...) > If people hand out illegal copies of software, it hurts > efforts to replace that software with something like open > office or ReactOS plus Open Office for example. Why bother > with free stuff if you can get commercial software without > paying for it? If the open source alternatives catch on, > the legal problems of pirating software go away. (...) And vice versa: if more illegal use of software is tracked down and punished, Software Libre will become more attractive. Remember the "Get Legal" campaign that OpenOffice.org did? I'm doing my little part: friends and family think that I'm their free service desk because I work in IT, but I simply refuse to help anyone with illegal software. The message is getting there: their usage of OpenOffice is increasing. Although that may also be because I was often able to repair a corrupt MS Office file with OpenOffice. "OpenOffice can fix files that MS Office can't!" Anyway, it's a bit off topic for a mailing list about FreeDOS. ;-) -- Amedee -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS
> > > > 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 to layout etc, and then > > removing all XML tags and attributes. Example: > > > > ... > > Hello > > ... > > > > ...would simply be reduced to "Hello", easy to read in DOS. > > Does anybody know a nice program for that for DOS? When in > > doubt, you can always use the DJGPP port of GNU textutils, > > for example the SED tool, to remove the XML markups... ;-) > > > I know there is a program on Linux that does exactly that, but I forgot > its name. Shouldn't be hard to find. If someone could port that... > > -- > Amedee > It wouldn't be too hard to write your own. Just scan through the file and output everything except what's between "<" and ">". The problem comes in if there's character codes like "©". That was the main issue I ran into when trying to write an HTML-to-plaintext converter. Skyler -- "Those who do not become dishonest or hostile are the most difficult to debate. Addressing others in a respectful and considerate manner conveys favorable impressions of their belief system. Providing rational answers to questions creates positive image of the person and their beliefs. Thank goodness there are very few such members and they are greatly outnumbered by those who are irrational, rabid, intolerant, and disrespectful." - An atheist -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing (comp, printq)
I found it in: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs/sharex.lsm maybeway36 On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Christian Masloch wrote: > Hi, > >> LGPL 2: share > > Where does it say that it's LGPL ? > > Christian > > -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing (comp, printq)
> I found it in: > > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs/sharex.lsm Thanks. The source file share.c from ftp.devoresoftware.com (Primary-site in the LSM) says only "GNU GPL", as does my copy (from DOS-C 2038 SVN). I assume the LSM is wrong. Christian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FreeDOS USB installation
Hello; I've been scouring the internet to find someone who has installed FreeDOS from a USB flash drive. I've found no one, thus far :(. Why would anyone, like me, want to do this? I have an EEEpc :) and want to run FreeDOS on this nifty little piece of machinery and start banging some bits! Does anyone have some advice or sugghestions? Thanks; Braden. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS
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 of doc2txt.ex (requires euphoria interpreter)
include get.e
integer infile
integer char
sequence out = ""
sequence currtag =""
atom IsTag =0
infile = open("outfile.xml", "rb")
while 1 do -- Loop forever
char = getc(infile)
if char=-1 then -- if end of file
exit-- end main loop
else
if IsTag then
currtag=currtag&char
if char='>' then
IsTag=0
else
end if
else
if char = '<' then
IsTag=1
currtag=currtag&char
else
out= out & char
end if
end if
end if
end while
puts(1, out)
if wait_key() then
end if
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