Of course, it cannot be expected to read modern RTF, but, still… The best thing about this version of Word is that it can save as an early form of RTF, so you can get files out of it and into something more modern.
In fact, though it is an exe file, it it better to unzip it using unzip that comes with FreeDOS, because then appropriate subdirectories will be created: c:\> cd wordtemp Copy the exe file into an empty folder (say c:\wordtemp) and run it - it will unzip flat in that folder. To install, use lynx or wget or whatever to download the file (you might just google “wd55_ben.exe”).
But it is quite usable and is freely available. Word for DOS was never a dominant product, not when it was up against WordPerfect. Other categories of things - image manipulation, news and email reading, printing and PostScript, will (or have been) dealt with elsewhere.įor more options, some even packaged ready for install, go here. The Ability suite contains some other tools.
I am looking at word processing, spreadsheets, information manager and PDF viewer. I have tried to only list things that have been explicitly placed into the public domain by a legitimate owner of the IP. Many commercial tools are available as ‘abandoneware’. Because FreeDOS does not include non-open software in its repository, these files are not available there, and must be chased down on the web. This is just a list of free (as in beer) products that you can use on (Free)DOS. Spreadsheets, word processors and so on tended to be commercial products. Because the FreeDOS repository only includes open source software for which source code is available, it includes relatively little in the way of productivity software.
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