Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:40:24 +0200 (MEST) From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> Cc: fred <fredq234@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: can FreeBSD run dos Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0309281637500.6515@kvist.cs.umu.se> In-Reply-To: <oprv59lj1o0cf2rk@mail.messagingengine.com> References: <Law11-OE41xkllJQXEQ000074c7@hotmail.com> <oprv59lj1o0cf2rk@mail.messagingengine.com>
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Jud wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:51:50 -0500, fred <fredq234@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > I am new to different OS's . > > Can this Os run Wordperfect 5.1 for dos??? > > It might be possible with Wine, but you would need a FAT partition, so > that would definitely be the long way round - you might as well install > Win9x in the FAT partition and run WordPerfect on DOS directly. FreeBSD > has several good free word processing programs of its own that you may > want to look at - see <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/editors.html>. > > Jud There's also doscmd(1), but I doubt that it will be able to run WordPerfect. I recommend Jud's suggestion, to look at the FreeBSD ports. Best regards, Paul
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