here http://nlmsx.generation-msx.nl/main.php?url=/changelog/ ,
they even clain for nlmsx v0.07 that "Dynamic publisher runs just fine now." just to get the right dsk image...

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let me ask a basic question - how to edit an Autoexit.bas - there´s nothing like that im my emulators´ folders...

well, i see now, it´s on the dsk image... yet, how to edit it? - the DP autostarts when i reset the system with the disk image in the (emulated) drive...

Aight, you should interrupt DP from starting by keeping [CTRL]+[STOP] pressed. Depending on your emulator, it's [CTRL]+[SOMEKEY]. On openMSX, [SOMEKEY] is [F8]. Then you can do a simple LIST and edit whatever you like. After that, type SAVE "AUTOEXEC.BAS" and reset your emulated MSX!

Or start the emulator without disk image and only after the MSX has booted, 'insert' the disk image...

hi. thanks again, unfortunetally, i cannot fathom how to edit the "autoexec.bat" file. using the ctrl+F8 trick in openMSX, i get int MSX DOS and have no idea how to edit a file, i can just get a list of them using rhe "dir" command.
when i insert the dsk image first after having started msx system in blueMSX, i get into basic, i can get the list of files using "files" command. i´d like to load & list the autoexec.bat, but load"autoexec.bat" returns "direct statement in file". i need an idiot´s guide to msx basic / msx dos...

Heh, AUTOEXEC.BAT is the MSX-DOS way of booting a disk. Aight, you're in DOS, and interrupted DP from booting by the [CTRL]+[F8] thing. Then do TYPE AUTOEXEC.BAT and tell me what you get there. Most likely, it says something along these lines:
- BASIC AUTOEXEC.BAS
- BASIC DP.BAS
- DP.COM

If the contents are comparable to the first or second one, type "BASIC" and when you're in BASIC, type LOAD "<thing>.BAS", where <thing> represents the name found in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Edit as desired and then SAVE "<thing>.BAS", reset your MSX.

If the contents are comparable to the third one, it's getting a bit more complicated. Whilst being in DOS, type the following:
COPY CON AUTOEXEC.BAT
BASIC STUFF.BAS
^Z <-- This actually means you have to type [CTRL]+[Z] to save AUTOEXEC.BAT

Next, go to BASIC, by typing BASIC. Type that listing you want to have run. The last line should be:
20 _SYSTEM("DP.COM"
Then, SAVE "STUFF.BAS". The _SYSTEM("DP.COM" will cause the program to go to DOS again, and boot DP.COM. Depending on your DOS version this either works or it doesn't. If it doesn't, you'll still be in DOS but instead the prompt A> is displayed. Just type DP.COM and you'll be fine.

thanks you a lot.
after TYPE AUTOEXEC.BAT i got just "DP".
then, everything went as it should. yet, being in BASIC, i didn´t know, how to follow your instruction "Type that listing you want to have run."

sorry. i believe, i´ve understood, what you meant, but i keep getting syntax errors in basic, and i cannot help myself even using MSX BASIC original manual, thank a lot for all your support, yet i believe, this task is too ambitious for me at the moment.

cichlasoma.n: The DP command in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file will fire up DP.COM or DP.BAT. So what you do now, is altering that AUTOEXEC.BAT so that it reads "BASIC STUFF.BAS". Then in STUFF.BAS, you can type the program listing e.g. FiXato posted, the one with the POKE and which alters the CPU mode of the turboR as well. End that listing with _SYSTEM. Run it, and from there, just type DP or DP.COM.

There's nothing ambitious about this, it's just following the guide. In BASIC, your computer should say something about the BASIC version, Disk BASIC version, etc. and end with an "Ok" prompt. From there, just type the program listing:
1 DATA 3E,81 ,....
...
20 _SYSTEM("DP"
SAVE "STUFF.BAS"
RUN

Good luck in any case

Oh, by the way, you should read the in the listings as " ) (So that is a double quote followed by a closing bracket.) This website magically turns them into a winking smile whenever encountered.

the problem is with the _SYSTEM command in BASIC. it keeps returning "syntax error". BASIC in my MSX simply doesn´t accept a
_SYSTEM command followed by a file name in double quotes and brackets.

on dos 1 _SYSTEM work only if MSXDOS is loaded before go to BASIC but on dos 2 _SYSTEM ("prog" ) work

CALL SYSTEM accepts parameters only in MSX-DOS2

ok. tkanks to all once more. i´ve got a dsk image of a french version working without problems. yet, it came out, it doesn´t support footnotes.

Argh, all that effort!

Anyway, I guess a proper word processor is hard to find on MSX. Unless of course, you'd get your hands on Tasword or Ted. But those are more like plain-text processors anyway and don't support automatic footnotes, nor headings. I did use Tasword in the old days though to hand in 'reports' while I was still in elementary school, and I believe I even did some when I was in high school.