From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 11 06:22:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA00688 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 06:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gate.consol.de (gate.consol.de [194.162.127.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA00679 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 06:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael.Elbel@consol.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Michael.Elbel@consol.de (at relayer gate.consol.de) Received: from msgsrv.bb.consol.de (root@msgsrv [10.250.0.100]) by gate.consol.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12152; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:20:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fourier.int.consol.de (me@fourier.int.consol.de [10.0.1.17]) by msgsrv.bb.consol.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00726; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:20:40 +0200 Received: (from me@localhost) by fourier.int.consol.de (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA09171; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:20:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from me) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:20:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Elbel Message-Id: <199809111320.PAA09171@fourier.int.consol.de> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.chat References: Reply-To: me@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #123 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In lists.freebsd.chat you write: >Calvin M Meloon 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