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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

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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Ron Clarke 
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