11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:40 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Doug Jackson wrote:
That reminds me.... The precursor to WordStar was a program called
WordMaster. It was pretty nice, given the timeframe, and would allow
one to edit in all sorts of control characters, etc. It would even let
one enter an EOF character into the file, thus terminating it for any
O/S based operation. It would ask if you REALLY wanted to do that, and
if you typed the "Y" it would do it, and then leave "TURKEY" up on the
screen for about two or three seconds. I loved that.
Warren
No - I don't but I am reminded of my youth. .
.
"InsertAwesomeEditorNameHere", to which I would always reply - 'you may
have "InsertAwesomeEditorNameHere", but I can never guarantee the next
client will have it, so I got good at using the standard editor!
I used Windows WRITE for my PhD written exams. I was the first person in
the department to ever use a word processor for the writtens!
(I wanted my answers to be logible)
Shortly after my father died, one of his friends decided to wipe
some programs from his computer. His buddy, who "knows all about
computers", erased *.*
When that seemed to leave two file behind, he erased . and erased ..
When I repaired the file deletions, I needed to edit his AUTOEXEC.BAT
His buddy was being obnoxiously overly present. As soon as I started
DEBUG to edit with, his buddy found a reason to leave in a hurry.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com