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From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
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Subject: Re: can FreeBSD run dos
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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