13 Jan
2003
13 Jan
'03
5:18 p.m.
The "this page left blank" was a borrow from military 'technical
orders.'
Though quite stodgy about their regs t times, they mostly new that
improvements and innovations would soon render a fixed document obsolete.
So, they kept them in binders, replaced outdated pages with updated ones,
and kept the "blank" pages as place holders (0's, if you like) for
expansion
beyond the then current document/section/segment length. Clear as mud?
Cheers!
Ed Tillman
Store Automation Tech Support Specialist
Valero Energy Corporation
San Antonio, TX; USA
Phone (210) 592-3110, Fax (210) 592-2048
edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com>
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From: cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org@PEUSA On Behalf Of "Live Wire"
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Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:58 PM
To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: DOS 1.0
infamous "This page intentionally left
blank" page. What's up with
that??
I have a stack of these pages ;)
I do also memember Wordstar and it's arcane
command sequences. Those
commands persisted though, through a number of ordinary text editors for
programmers & such.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/
This is as close to wordstar and the WS CTRL-K-x command set I have found.
I used to use wordstar on a tiny portable computer with a 4 line display
to
write asm for the amiga 500 and then dump it via the built in modem.
Joe is my favorite editor today, though I find myself living in vi for the
most part...