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Outliner Software for MS-DOS? (Users)

posted by CluelessInSeattl, Seattle, USA, 05.01.2013, 23:27

> Look for a title called PC Outline by Brown Bag Software. You should be
> able to find it on Simtel.net or in any old shareware archive.

Hi mbbrutman!

I've been hunting online for a DOS version of PC-Outline, but haven't been able to find it. All I can find are the Windows version.

However I did find an article that mentioned that: "...in the late 1980s WordStar 5 came bundled with PC-Outline, a popular DOS outliner then available from Brown Bag Software, Inc. in California. PC-Outline text had to be exported to a WordStar-format file, as the programs were not developed to be internally compatible."

Reading that article jogged my memory and I seem to recall trying PC-Outline back when I bought WS 5.5. But I didn't care for it then because it didn't incorporate the WordStar editing commands, if I remember rightly. But, I wondered if I might still have my original WS 5.5 floppies. So I dug around in the boxes of old disks in my back room and I'll be danged if I didn't dig out an old 5.25" floppy disk labeled PC-Outline.

Then I dug out my old 286 PC that has both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives. But the 5.25" floppy drive doesn't seem to work anymore :o(. I checked my neighborhood PC Recycling Shop, and he does have a 5.25" drive he'll sell me for $13. So if I can't get the drive in that old machine to work by Monday, I'm going to ride my bike down there and buy that drive.

> This program was so good and it still holds up reasonably well. A few
> years ago I dug it up again to use it to study for a large test I was
> taking. The modern versions Microsoft Word pale in comparison when used
> for outlining.

I don't suppose you still have that program lying around now do you?

---
Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"
Running MS-DOS 6.21

Complete thread:

• Outliner Software for MS-DOS? - CluelessInSeattl, 03.01.2013, 21:25 (Users)
  • Outliner Software for MS-DOS? - bretjohn, 04.01.2013, 17:36
    • Outliner Software for MS-DOS? - CluelessInSeattl, 05.01.2013, 23:43
  • Outliner Software for MS-DOS? - rr, 04.01.2013, 20:38
    • Outliner Software for MS-DOS? - CluelessInSeattl, 05.01.2013, 23:29
  • Outliner Software for MS-DOS? - mbbrutman, 05.01.2013, 02:26
    • Outliner Software for MS-DOS? - CluelessInSeattl, 05.01.2013, 23:27
      • Outliner Software for MS-DOS? - glennmcc, 06.01.2013, 02:08
        • Outliner Software for MS-DOS? - CluelessInSeattl, 06.01.2013, 05:35