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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 12/16/2006, you wrote:
> Or are you familiar with the old WordStar program?  If not, with WordStar
> you just buzzed along and typed the commands for things like bold and
> underline as you wrote and your hands never had to leave the keyboard.
> Loved the that old program <g>

I hated that program and did what I could to never use it.  My first word 
processing program was Word Perfect.  Many text editors used WordStar 
commands so early on I put vi on everything I could even an early Mac.  I 
spent a lifetime on text editors and integrated development environments 
starting in the mid 70s.



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WordStar was the first word processing program I learned.  I loved it too. 
Some of the commands were a bit cryptic though.  Like what does control b 
have to do with paragraph reformatting?  The first version I had ran on dos. 
That would have been in the early eighties.  I eventually got a version that 
ran on windows, but not until about 1991.  Lotus 123 and Word was out by 
then and I got heckled all the time at work because I still ran WordStar. 
In the later revisions, you could use mouse commands, but I still used the 
old control key commands.  Yes, Lynda, It was a great word processor. 
Humm...... I think I still have a copy or two around here somewhere.

Wendy



> On another list, I was talking to someone about the OLD WordStar program 
> and
> they compared it to something that Apple/Mac had going.  This person left
> the list in the middle of the conversation (husband was killed in
> Afghanistan).
>
> Would you know what she was talking about?  Your reference to manuvering 
> at
> the command line sounds familiar.
>
> Or are you familiar with the old WordStar program?  If not, with WordStar
> you just buzzed along and typed the commands for things like bold and
> underline as you wrote and your hands never had to leave the keyboard.
> Loved the that old program <g>
>
> Lynda