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

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"Anssi Saari" <as@sci.fi> wrote in message 
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> 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.

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.)

-- 
Bartc 

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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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