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  • From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Back to Mac
  • Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:21:35 -0800

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






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