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From: tbopp@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Tom Bopp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wordstar (was: Editors and huge files)
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Date: 28 Feb 90 22:16:19 GMT
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In article <1990Feb28.144559.29221@mks.com> andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) writes:
>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?
>

This "feature" can be disabled in WS 5.5, but not in 4.0 and I don't
know about 5.0.  From WS5.5's WSCHANGE main menu, do this:

  D  Wordstar
  B  Editing
  H  Wordstar Compatibility
  G  Automatically fills out last record  (SETEOF)
      (Change ON to OFF)

Like magic, no more extra ^Z's.  It is also possible to set WS up so
that it is automatically in nondocument mode whenever you name the 
file in the command line (like, C>ws config.sys).  The path through
the WSCHANGE menus to do this is D, C, B, A.

>Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc.,       Internet: andy@mks.com

tbopp@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu