6/1/2023 0 Comments Wordperfect 5.1 Dos![]() ![]() I know about wordgrinder but it's very very basic. I'm not aware of any other full-featured modern word processor that can run in an xterm. It can import TTF fonts and print to PostScript, which I just pipe into ps2pdf and then handle on the host. I find this technically impressive and makes a lot of old DOS software indistinguishable from native linux software stdin/stdout, parameters, host filesystem access, etc all work transparently. It works beautifully under dosemu2, which has a terminal mode that can translate various VGA modes into S-Lang calls (S-Lang is like ncurses, so no X11 required). ![]() I only use it for writing letters and so on, nothing too serious, but I prefer to stay in the terminal if I can. I use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS, not for any nostalgia or legacy reasons, just because it's a full-featured and highly configurable word processor that I can use in a terminal.
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