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I don't know if this is the right newsgroup to post this question, but
here goes: I would like to have a BASIC program generate the reference
list for papers done using WORDSTAR on an IBM PC Junior. (No flames
about the equipment, please -- it's not mine!!) I don't have access to
the WORDSTAR program right now, and would like to know:

a) If there is a "graceful", easy-to-use way for WORDSTAR to merge in
   plain ascii files. (the ascii files must be able to contain directives
   like "switch to italics here", etc.)

   (I have a feeling that merging with ascii files is probably easy, but
   getting certain parts of the merged text italicized won't be)

b) How complicated is the WORDSTAR file format? Can it be generated directly
   by a BASIC program? i.e. Maybe I should forget about merging my document
   into a WORDSTAR document, and instead directly generate the WORDSTAR
   file (fool WORDSTAR into thinking that *it* created the file)

Any help would be greatly appreciated! If I'm posting this to the wrong
newsgroup, I would also appreciate it if someone told me...

Please email all responses to me; I don't usually keep up with this
newsgroup...
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Joe Morrison
VLSI Group
University of Waterloo
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