Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks

From	Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks
Date	2014-05-16 06:06 +0000
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On Thu, 15 May 2014 23:31:03 +0000, Lewis wrote:

> In message <btkajhFpd85U17@mid.individual.net>
>   Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 May 2014 15:59:39 +0000, Lewis wrote:
> 
>>> In message <btj751Fpd85U13@mid.individual.net>
>>>   Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 14 May 2014 23:31:36 -0400, sail0r wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> On 2014-05-14 09:52:55 +0000, RS Wood said:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> The blogosphere is buzzing this week with the revelation[1] that
>>>>>> George R.R.
>>>>>> Martin[2] , the much-admired author of the A Game of Thrones[3] and
>>>>>> more, actually does his writing on a DOS machine running the old,
>>>>>> 1970s word processor, Wordstar[4] .
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I read that I wondered just how he got the files to his
>>>>> publisher?
>>>>> Is he running DOS in emulation and just otherwise emails the files?
>>>>> If not, does he snail mail them a floppy disk? Dial up to some
>>>>> remote machine?
>>>>> Anyone know?
>>> 
>>>> No reason why he couldn't email from DOS.
>>> 
>>> The lack of a TCP/IP stack is a bit of a problem.
> 
>> It would be if there was such a lackl. There isn't. I have a DOS boot
>> floppy here with TCP/IP on it.
> 
> What version of DOS, and by whom? AS far as I know, MSFT never released
> a TCP/IP stack for DOS. Even under Windows they used winsock (via raw
> sockets) to fake TCP/IP.

As far as I recall, it was IBM. And it was real TCP/IP. I have an old IBM 
portable set up with it, and can use FTp, etc. I even have a boot disk 
somewhere that will do "NETBIOS over TCP/IP".



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Wordstar on DOS still rocks RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-14 09:52 +0000
  Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks sail0r <sail0r@example.com> - 2014-05-14 23:31 -0400
    Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-05-15 07:02 +0000
      Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-15 08:31 +0100
        Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-15 11:50 +0000
          Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-15 12:50 +0000
            Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-15 15:53 +0000
              Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-05-15 17:27 +0000
                Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-15 18:10 +0000
                Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-16 03:53 +0000
      Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-15 15:59 +0000
        Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-05-15 17:08 +0000
          Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-15 23:31 +0000
            Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-05-15 18:02 -0700
              Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-16 03:56 +0000
                Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-05-19 11:30 -0700
            Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-05-16 06:06 +0000
        Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-05-19 23:14 +0300
          Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-19 23:12 +0000
    Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-15 15:59 +0000
    Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-05-15 17:10 +0000
      Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-15 17:55 +0000
        Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-15 23:33 +0000
          Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks "John" <j@j.j> - 2014-05-22 10:32 -0700
  Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-16 09:59 +0100
    Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-18 19:01 +0200
  Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-16 18:10 +0100
    Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-18 14:11 +0000
      Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-18 16:18 +0100

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