Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS USB installation
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:23:57PM +, k...@comcast.net wrote: > Will the EEEpc boot from a USB flash drive? It does. I run Haiku on mine booting from a USB flash drive. Ángel -- 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] FreeDOS USB installation
Will the EEEpc boot from a USB flash drive? If so, install FreeDOS on the USB flash from another computer, boot it on the EEEpc, and install FreeDOS "normally" on the EEEpc. Many (probably most) computers with modern BIOSs will recognize a USB flash drive if it is installed at boot time. This allows installation of FreeDOS normally on the drive and booting it when you are done. I have installed FreeDOS on USB flash drives. With a modern BIOS and a floppy drive, that's trivial. Slightly harder booting from CD since you have to create the CD. Mark - Original Message - From: "Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux" To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:13:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [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 -- 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] FreeDOS USB installation
Some options: a) "installing" just means creating MBR, creating bootsector, copying system files plus copying some applicaitons, there is no force to use an installer, you can do this copying steps yourself b) you can boot grub4dos from USB and emulate then the freedos installer iso and install to internal harddisk from there -mr Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux schrieb: > 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 > > -- 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
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 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... > Found it: odt2txt http://stosberg.net/odt2txt/ I don't see a reason to reinvent the weel. -- 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
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.xml > > This is the code of doc2txt.ex (requires euphoria interpreter) Here is a shorter variant, using SED www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/sed/sed.1.html ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' < outfile.xml > outfile.txt You may need extra expressions for rare cases where there are linebreaks inside tags. You can also add expressions for example to convert & to & later in the doc text etc, just use more -e 's/in/out/g'. Eric ;-) -- 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
