Resurrection of Wordstar documents (was: NASA Had To Bring in the OLD Guys to Fix Hubble Telescope - Broader Message ?)

[25.BZ959]

Quite frankly 99% of all correspondence could be happily written in
wordstar under CP/M

Heh... I still have WordStar 6.0 running under xdosemu on this
machine.
Just yesterday I printed off a dozen or so QSL cards that I crafted in
PCL-5 Back In The Day.
I've had WordStar on all my machines over the years -- starting with
WordStar 2.0 on CP/M. WordStar 6.0 was the last decent version.
After that the wheels started coming off.

Joes Own Editor does perfect wordstar `emulation.

Does it make use of the "Wordstar Diamond" too? Awesome then. I miss it.
Sure, you can reassign keys from probably any other editor for that
<https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WordStarDiamond>. Of course you
lose default functions. Like the Diamond uses "d", which for example vi
uses to delete stuff instead of moving the cursor.
I suggest to continue in the folklore group. F'up2.

The old Turbo Pascal used WordStar commands through
several generations. A widely used, and widely useful,
bit of software.

If it needs a GUI, I still use Lazarus/FPC.

[John Goerzen]

Post by 25.BZ959
The old Turbo Pascal used WordStar commands through
several generations. A widely used, and widely useful,
bit of software.

That reminded me - I never used WordStar (WordPerfect instead) but I remember
Borland saying all their products were using those Wordstar keybindings. That
includes not just Turbo Pascal, but also Sidekick (the DOS TSR) and Borland C++.

When I moved to FreeBSD and Linux, I used the editor joe for a long time as it
let me continue with those keybindings.

John

[The Natural Philosopher]

Quite frankly 99% of all correspondence could be happily written in
wordstar under CP/M

Heh... I still have WordStar 6.0 running under xdosemu on this
machine.
Just yesterday I printed off a dozen or so QSL cards that I crafted in
PCL-5 Back In The Day.
I've had WordStar on all my machines over the years -- starting with
WordStar 2.0 on CP/M. WordStar 6.0 was the last decent version.
After that the wheels started coming off.

Joes Own Editor does perfect wordstar `emulation.

Does it make use of the "Wordstar Diamond" too? Awesome then. I miss it.

Oh yes.
If you start it in wordstar emulation mode

Sure, you can reassign keys from probably any other editor for that
<https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WordStarDiamond>. Of course you
lose default functions. Like the Diamond uses "d", which for example vi
uses to delete stuff instead of moving the cursor.
I suggest to continue in the folklore group. F'up2.

[Kurt Weiske]

To: 25.BZ959
-=> 25.BZ959 wrote to alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc <=-

25> The old Turbo Pascal used WordStar commands through
25> several generations. A widely used, and widely useful,
25> bit of software.

I run a BBS, and do most of my BBSing in DOSBOX on a modern OS. Inside the
dosbox is an environment I've used since 1991 or so - a QWK message reader,
DOS utilities including Xtree, and Qedit, a nice text editor that uses the
Wordstar key bindings. I'm working that ctrl-K muscle memory every day.


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