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Article #43205Wordstar (was: Editors and huge files)
From: Andy Toy
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 14:45
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 14:45
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In article <4710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler) writes:
>Dare I suggest (gasp) WordStar?
Looks like you dared. There's one annoying feature of Wordstar that
keeps me from recommending it. It writes files out is a rather
unstandard format for DOS. I seems to pad the end of file with ^Z
(control-Z) to the nearest block. Of course the file size in the
directory information includes all these extra ^Z characters :-(
Has this feature :-) been removesd from the recent versions of
Wordstar?
>And yes, I even still use WordStar. And admit it in public. :-) :-)
I know lots of people who use Wordstar, but they get annoyed when they
don't have it for their UNIX box :-) ....then they switch to vi :-)
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Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com
35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy
Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!mks.com!andy From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Wordstar (was: Editors and huge files) Message-ID: <1990Feb28.144559.29221@mks.com> Date: 28 Feb 90 14:45:59 GMT References: <3658@plains.UUCP> <4710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Distribution: na Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 19