Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:20:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Elbel <Michael.Elbel@consol.de> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed Message-ID: <199809111320.PAA09171@fourier.int.consol.de> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980910131456.20268A-100000@pompano.pcola.gulf.net> <xzp3e9z4rru.fsf@hel.ifi.uio.no>
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In lists.freebsd.chat you write: >Calvin M Meloon <calvin@pompano.pcola.gulf.net> writes: >> For many of us from the pre-windows pc era we preferred the ... >> >> Borland Turbo Editor >> >> in the TurboC and TurboPascal environments. It rocked. >WordStar ripoff. Anybody ever used WordStar? It used to be THE text >processor on the IBM PC platform, and just about every editor written >for the PC until the early nineties was either a WordStar clone or had >a WordStar compatibility mode. Bingo. Anybody still remember binary-patching the executable to customize WordStar for different terminals? I distinctly remember the pains to come up with settings for those @*$^&%% Hazeltine Terminals. I once even wrote a disk/File editor in Assembler for CP/M that, of course, used the WordStar compatible control keys to move the cursor. I actually feel somewhat ashamed that I can't remember whether it was ^C ^R ^F ^D or ^X ^E ^D ^S :(. I wonder if the 8 inch floppy that this little jewel is on can still be read. -- \|/ -O- Michael Elbel, ConSol* GmbH, - me@consol.de - 089 / 45841-256 /|\ Fermentation fault (coors dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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