[BL] Wordstar under dosemu

Ron Clarke ariadne at earthlink.com.au
Fri Aug 19 18:19:53 EDT 2005


Hi Folks,

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:43:56 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:



> Under plain dosemu:
> My partner's editor works except for an occasional feature.
> It is tiny (4K) but does line wrap correctly.
> 
> The freedos edit program works except line wrap does not progress to
> the next line, it goes back to the beginning of the same line.
> 
> DR-DOS edit, breeze, and pcword are not usable because the background is 
> tiled with box character and a lot of other characters come out 
> incorrectly as upper ascii.  I am using a Tseng card with Xvesa, which 
> might be part of the problem.

    Breeze works for me under plain dosemu.  Have you tried invoking dosemu with the " -V " switch ?
This turns on VGA graphics and fixes the high ASCII characters on my machine.


> There is a standalone DOS spell checker Turbo Lightning which I have not 
> yet tried.
> 
> Has anyone else tried a DOS text editor other than the one that comes with 
> freedos under plain dosemu?

  I have found PEDIT is good in plain dosemu, and it has a built-in spell checker with a user-generated dictionary as well.

Regards,
        Ron

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