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Re: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

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On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, BartC wrote:

>
>
> "Anssi Saari" <as@sci.fi> wrote in message 
> news:vg3egvqnq1d.fsf@coffee.modeemi.fi...
>> Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:
>> 
>>> http://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
>>>
>>>    Many Science Fiction writers - including myself, Roger MacBride Allen,
>>>    Jeffrey A. Carver, Arthur C. Clarke, David Gerrold, Terence M. Green,
>>>    James Gunn, Matthew Hughes, Donald Kingsbury, Eric Kotani, Paul
>>>    Levinson, George R. R. Martin, Vonda McIntyre, Kit Reed, Jennifer
>>>    Roberson, and Edo van Belkom - continue to use WordStar for DOS as our
>>>    writing tool of choice.
>> 
>> Since that's so old (1996), it would be interesting to know who of the
>> writers on that list are still using WordStar almost 20 years
>> later... Off the top of my head Martin does and Clarke doesn't but I
>> have no idea about the others.
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> Arthur C. Clarke is dead, so wouldn't be using WordStar for that reason. (I 
> don't know if he switched to something else between 1996 and his death.)
>
> I've never heard of any of the others.
>
> (I can say that, while *I* don't use WordStar, my own editor still uses many 
> of its command codes, 30 years after I first saw it in action. But I use it 
> for coding not writing.)
>
There's a Linux program titled "joe" that can emulate a number of editors, 
including wordstar, depending on how it is invoked.  I installed it early, 
thinking that was useful, and then have never invoked it other than "joe"
except to see what the others looked like.

   Michael

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WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-05 09:57 +0000
  Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-09-05 16:41 +0300
    Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-05 10:18 -0400
    Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-09-05 15:45 +0100
      Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-05 14:45 -0400
        Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-06 01:38 +0000
  Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-09-06 17:18 +0000
    Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Michael Murphy <fake@nospam.invalid> - 2014-09-06 17:54 -0400
  Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-07 10:12 +0000
    Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-11 18:38 +0100

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