Re: Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-15 Thread John Murray
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, you wrote: > What's a good free Wordprocessor for DOS (runnable with 386, 4MB RAM) > and where can I get it? > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > Jan > -- > Jan Lentfer > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://welcome.to/MountainbikeHQ Have you

Re: Wordprocessor for DOS

2000-01-14 Thread Howard Schwartz
If you like markup languages (which I do), there is a wonderful word processor for dos available as groff: http://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gro110b.zip This is the GNU version of the unix desktop publisher, troff. You mark up a plain text file with commands that start with a

Re: Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-14 Thread Jan Lentfer
Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton wrote: > Alternatively you could download the GEOPUBLISH shareware program from > Simtel. Couldn't find it at Simtel. Any other adress? Thanks, Jan -- Jan Lentfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://welcome.to/MountainbikeHQ

Re: Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-14 Thread Bernie
Sam Heywood wrote: >If you are going to be writing essays of a scholarly nature, then you will >need a word-processor suitable for citing sources and quotes and for >producing footnotes and end-notes. You will need a word-processor having >an underline feature for citing a book. For doing footno

Re: Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-14 Thread Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton
>What's a good free Wordprocessor for DOS (runnable with 386, 4MB RAM) >and where can I get it? > >Thanks a lot in advance, > >Jan If you need to export the file to word, you need something decent like Wordstar, or a plain ASCII editor like textedit. Alternatively

Re: Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-13 Thread Bernie
Jan wrote: >What's a good free Wordprocessor for DOS (runnable with 386, 4MB RAM) >and where can I get it? Something you can get for free is Word 5.5 from M$ sites (you are of course not allowed to download it if you don't have a license for Word 5.0 or above). http://officeupda

Re: Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-13 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 01:55:14 +0100, Jan Lentfer wrote: > What I need this program for is writing essays on my old 386, VGA > monochrome display, 4MB Toshiba notebook (which I got for free from the > company I worked for, coz the wanted to trash it :-, and then > exporting them to Win - based

Re: Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-13 Thread Roger Turk
Jan, WordPerfect (WPDOS) 6.x looks a lot like Windoze, so much so that although I have it on my computer, I use it only when absolutely necessary, e.g., when I have to convert a Word document (WinWord) for use in WordPerfect. My word processor of choice is WPDOS 5.1, but I don't think that yo

Re: Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-13 Thread Clarence Verge
Jan Lentfer wrote: > > Clarence Verge wrote: > > > What do you require of a word processor ? > > > > Basically a an ASCII text Editor. I remember using Wordstar 2000 on my > Dad's old 8088 about 12 years ago. Good program, is there any place > where you can get it for free? > I also remember th

Re: Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-13 Thread Jan Lentfer
Clarence Verge wrote: > What do you require of a word processor ? > > There are lots available. Some are ridiculous overkill and a torment to use. > Others may more properly be called text editors but this catagory fills my > requirements most of the time. > > When my text editor can't handle t

Re: Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-13 Thread Clarence Verge
Jan Lentfer wrote: > > What's a good free Wordprocessor for DOS (runnable with 386, 4MB RAM) > and where can I get it? What do you require of a word processor ? There are lots available. Some are ridiculous overkill and a torment to use. Others may more properly be called text ed

Wordprocessor for DOS?

2000-01-13 Thread Jan Lentfer
What's a good free Wordprocessor for DOS (runnable with 386, 4MB RAM) and where can I get it? Thanks a lot in advance, Jan -- Jan Lentfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://welcome.to/MountainbikeHQ