Post #988714

I had a good time today learning something probably useless for me. I do enjoy this kind of thing. I found a copy of an old WordPerfect install floppy image set on Internet Archive. Then I learned about something called dosemu2 which does a DOS emulation on Linux. Then I messed around with the images of the floppy disks and got that old version of WordPerfect installed and running on the DOS emulation. So I typed a little document and saved it. I went to look at it in Linux and it was mostly garbled stuff with some words. And then I opened the document again in WP and found a command that would save it as a DOS text file. And voila, when I opened that file outside WP it was normal text. No italics or bold, but the text was there. Too bad I no longer have any old WP documents I need to open. 🤔