- MS-DOS MS-Word porting
- Posted by Marc on September 25th, 2003
Hello,
i'd like to know if someone is working on old Ms-dos
Microsoft Word (version 5.5 or 6.0) porting for Linux (like
"Joe's editor" porting for Linux of the old ms-dos
Wordstar). I love old text interface and, although I don't
love Microsoft in general, I have used this software for a
long time in my office and I don't know another not-GUI
wordprocessor so functional.
Thank you for your information and notice.
Marc Tan
Florence - ITALY
- Posted by Juha Siltala on September 27th, 2003
In article <bkujdr$gfs$1@grillo.cs.interbusiness.it>, Marc wrote:
I guess it would be hard to port it without the source code. I suppose you
can run it under dosemu and MS-DOS though.
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- Posted by mjt on September 27th, 2003
Juha Siltala wrote:
.... in a phrase, "clean room engineering"
..
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- Posted by Lew Pitcher on September 28th, 2003
Marc wrote:
Why not just run it under Wine (if it's a "Windows" program), or under DOSEMU
(if it's a DOS program)?
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- Posted by LEE Sau Dan on September 30th, 2003
Marc> Hello, i'd like to know if someone is working on old Ms-dos
Marc> Microsoft Word (version 5.5 or 6.0) porting for Linux (like
Marc> "Joe's editor" porting for Linux of the old ms-dos
Marc> Wordstar). I love old text interface and, although I don't
Marc> love Microsoft in general, I have used this software for a
Marc> long time in my office and I don't know another not-GUI
Marc> wordprocessor so functional.
Heard of Word Perfect? I love WP 5.1, because it is non-GUI and hence
very efficient to work with (esp. for a touch-typist).
Guess what! There are Linux ports of WP (but not necessarily the
non-GUI versions). I haven't tried any of them, though, as I've
learnt LaTeX much earlier than these ports ever existed.
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- Posted by Michael Black on October 1st, 2003
Marc <marctan@ftbcc.it> wrote in message news:<bkujdr$gfs$1@grillo.cs.interbusiness.it>...
But Joe wasn't ported. It was just written from scratch, or
based on other free software, so it works like Wordstar. I never
used Wordstar, so I don't know how much Joe is like Wordstar,
beyond the obvious use of the same keystrokes for commands.
For non-GUI software, it is those keystrokes that are the key.
If you move between similar applications but with different
keystrokes, you are forever pressing the wrong key because
it's function has changed.
The basic functions would be the same for just about any text
editor. And realistically, it is those basic functions that
people would most want, and most want to be activated with the
same keystrokes.
Since the source is there for Joe, and a bunch of other editors,
it should be relatively easy to change the keystroke commands
to match those of Word. And if there is some feature missing
that Word has, then you work on the source code of Joe to add
whatever it is you need. Since the source is there, it is
far simpler than starting from scratch, and it is far easier
than in the old days when if you wanted to modify Word, you'd
have to start by disassemblying it all and figuring out the
source code, before you could even begin to add something.
Michael
