Re: command line wordperfect
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On 11/25/07 21:17, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> On 11/23/07 23:54, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Dont' forget its best feature (the one that has never been used anywhere
>>> else, but should be)...
>>>
>>> Drum roll, please...
>>>
>>> View Codes
>>>
>>
>> Balderdash. WordStar had "show codes" from the beginning.
>>
> I'll take your word for that and accept it as given. I think I only
> used WordStar once, or twice, so it could well have had the feature
> without my knowledge of it.
You wouldn't find it if you searched for it, though.
Because many terminals back in the late 1970s were *very* dumb
(couldn't even display bold/underline/blinking), the relevant
control codes would be embedded directly into the document.
IOW, Show Codes was on all the time, and you couldn't turn it off.
Maybe WS 4.0 fixed that, but I don't remember.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
%SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels
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