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the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos (Announce)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 07.02.2024, 20:53

> \\ You may consider this PR and advertising material, but my goal was to
> make this world a little simpler, and to interest young people in creating
> with this simplicity.

It's all good, your ad is relevant to DOS after all.

As for me, I create my main web pages (pushbx.org landing page and my website) using the Halibut documentation preparation system, which is intended for software manuals but works in a pinch for very simple webpages. I do also use it for my long form manuals and indeed the HTML format of these manuals is the canonical reference.

My blog runs in a dokuwiki. It's a little unwieldy to install but it provides easier and more flexible formatting, as well as including a little comment thread for every blog post.

As for DOS I do regularly, up to once weekly, actually prepare a blog post on the HP 95LX using its builtin editor. I do edit it on my Debian Linux desktop machine though, particularly to insert hyperlinks. Editing the manuals or websites usually happens in a Linux shell session, which isn't a graphical environment but isn't DOS either. I do like the terminal though.

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Complete thread:

• the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 07.02.2024, 19:31 (Announce)
  • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - ecm, 07.02.2024, 20:53
    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bretjohn, 07.02.2024, 23:43
      • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bretjohn, 08.02.2024, 17:51
        • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - rr, 08.02.2024, 22:36
          • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bretjohn, 09.02.2024, 00:34
            • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - rr, 09.02.2024, 16:56
        • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bocke, 09.02.2024, 20:23
          • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - roytam, 10.02.2024, 15:29
            • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 11.02.2024, 09:44
              • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 13.02.2024, 14:26
              • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bocke, 16.02.2024, 13:08
                • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 22.02.2024, 11:20
                  • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 21.03.2024, 19:33
                    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 27.03.2024, 12:45
                    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 04.04.2024, 10:21
                    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 10.04.2024, 10:31
                      • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 30.09.2024, 08:46
      • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - rr, 08.02.2024, 22:34
        • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bretjohn, 09.02.2024, 01:59
          • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - rr, 09.02.2024, 17:06
            • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bocke, 09.02.2024, 20:29
  • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - glennmcc, 07.02.2024, 23:13
    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - mceric, 08.02.2024, 00:35
      • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 08.02.2024, 21:18
  • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bocke, 09.02.2024, 20:37
    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 10.02.2024, 10:56