[arachne] Re: WORDSTAR 4 AND OTHER DOS EDITORS

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On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:11:50 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:

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> On Mon, 26 May 2008 23:53:57 -0400, Brian C. Murphy wrote:

>> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

>> With respect to the choices of decent DOS editors in the discussion a few

>> days ago, I forgot at the time to mention that a company called TRIO, whi
>> ch
>> can be found on the Internet, still sells copies of Wordstar 4.  I am not

> I have never liked Wordstar since I first used it nearly 30 years ago.

> But for those who prefer its weird keystoke commands, I note that Word
> Perfect 5.1 has WordStar as one of its emulations.

I still use WordStar 3.3 almost every day.
And convert.exe from wordperfect 5.1 to convert to wp. The converted
WordStar can be read into WORD with no loss of special signs like é.
Even the ohm sign is converted right. No hard returns are introduced.

See you, Bastiaan


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