Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Kohlbach Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: NASA Had To Bring in the OLD Guys to Fix Hubble Telescope - Broader Message ? Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 18:28:29 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <87iloh4whe.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> References: <95WdnTrQW_F5jyb_nZ2dnUU7-RHNnZ2d@earthlink.com> <8735fn5f24.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e2737efe7c9b037f45c3a1bb4745bd19"; logging-data="2147456"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19NLIn2hiyS7li6Z2kqkB6J" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S9CTGiLOM6LwvNsjWAR5BpvcHpQ= sha1:qdpatMmWHKI9AaoIcm0Egn+Muws= X-No-Archive: Yes Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:34921 On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:59:39 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > > On 29/06/2022 22:34, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:45:27 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> >>> Quite frankly 99% of all correspondence could be happily written in >>> wordstar under CP/M >> But suppose there are no file format converters? >> You can save your work in *.txt, but that would remove all >> formatting. > > And what a huge blessing that would be. None. But (unless a converter exits) the only way to retrieve the contents of Wordstar files. > How many fonts or formatting styles on a non daisy wheel manual > typewriter, which served to write messages to run several empires, > were there? You have bold, italics, sub- and superscript, many other. A daisy wheel cannot reproduce them. But Dot-Matrix printers already existed. -- Andreas