Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!mks.com!andy
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Wordstar (was: Editors and huge files)
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.144559.29221@mks.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 14:45:59 GMT
References: <3658@plains.UUCP> <4710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
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Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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In article <4710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler) writes:
>Dare I suggest (gasp) WordStar?

Looks like you dared.  There's one annoying feature of Wordstar that
keeps me from recommending it.  It writes files out is a rather
unstandard format for DOS.  I seems to pad the end of file with ^Z
(control-Z) to the nearest block.  Of course the file size in the
directory information includes all these extra ^Z characters :-(
Has this feature :-) been removesd from the recent versions of
Wordstar?

>And yes, I even still use WordStar.  And admit it in public.  :-) :-)

I know lots of people who use Wordstar, but they get annoyed when they 
don't have it for their UNIX box :-) ....then they switch to vi :-)
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