What's a good DOS text editor?

[Gapporin]

Besides the one already built-in. :P

I have a 486 laptop loaded with DOS that I primarily use for text-editing, writing, etc. Only problem is, I tend to write with italics and bold and all that fancy stuff, and the built-in text editor doesn't seem to handle that at all. So, what I'm looking for is a DOS-based text editor that can write with italics/bold/whathaveyou. I'd appreciate any recommendations. Thanks! :)

[Blanka789]

Besides the one already built-in. :P

I have a 486 laptop loaded with DOS that I primarily use for text-editing, writing, etc. Only problem is, I tend to write with italics and bold and all that fancy stuff, and the built-in text editor doesn't seem to handle that at all. So, what I'm looking for is a DOS-based text editor that can write with italics/bold/whathaveyou. I'd appreciate any recommendations. Thanks! :)

Doesn't the old version of Microsoft Word?

[Flack]

Back in the day before Word I used a program called PFS-Write. I know it supported bold and italics and all that, but I would imagine that the files would be fairly proprietary.

[badinsults]

I used to use Wordperfect, which at the time was far more powerful than Micrsoft Works. I wrote up several papers in high school using it. If you can track down an old copy of it, I would definitely recommend it.

[roushimsx]

I can't remember the word processing package we used to use....but yea, just hunt down a copy of Word Perfect for DOS. It's pretty much the best thing available :)

[Griking]

didn't DOS come with edit.com?

[Flack]

didn't DOS come with edit.com?
Sure did. How again do you do italics and bold in edit?

[Jorpho]

Oh yes, WordPerfect 5.1 was da bomb.
http://www.wpdos.org

MS Word 5.5 for DOS was once available for free somewhere in the depths of the Microsoft website, ostensibly for Y2k compatibility reasons. It's probably still there.