andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) (02/28/90)
In article <4710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler) writes: >Dare I suggest (gasp) WordStar? Looks like you dared. There's one annoying feature of Wordstar that keeps me from recommending it. It writes files out is a rather unstandard format for DOS. I seems to pad the end of file with ^Z (control-Z) to the nearest block. Of course the file size in the directory information includes all these extra ^Z characters :-( Has this feature :-) been removesd from the recent versions of Wordstar? >And yes, I even still use WordStar. And admit it in public. :-) :-) I know lots of people who use Wordstar, but they get annoyed when they don't have it for their UNIX box :-) ....then they switch to vi :-) -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861
tbopp@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Tom Bopp) (03/01/90)
In article <1990Feb28.144559.29221@mks.com> andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) writes: >In article <4710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler) writes: >>Dare I suggest (gasp) WordStar? > >Looks like you dared. There's one annoying feature of Wordstar that >keeps me from recommending it. It writes files out is a rather >unstandard format for DOS. I seems to pad the end of file with ^Z >(control-Z) to the nearest block. Of course the file size in the >directory information includes all these extra ^Z characters :-( >Has this feature :-) been removesd from the recent versions of >Wordstar? > This "feature" can be disabled in WS 5.5, but not in 4.0 and I don't know about 5.0. From WS5.5's WSCHANGE main menu, do this: D Wordstar B Editing H Wordstar Compatibility G Automatically fills out last record (SETEOF) (Change ON to OFF) Like magic, no more extra ^Z's. It is also possible to set WS up so that it is automatically in nondocument mode whenever you name the file in the command line (like, C>ws config.sys). The path through the WSCHANGE menus to do this is D, C, B, A. >Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com tbopp@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
mep@stb.uucp (???) (03/03/90)
In article <1990Feb28.144559.29221@mks.com> andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) writes: >In article <4710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler) writes: >>Dare I suggest (gasp) WordStar? > >Looks like you dared. There's one annoying feature of Wordstar that >keeps me from recommending it. It writes files out is a rather >unstandard format for DOS. I seems to pad the end of file with ^Z >(control-Z) to the nearest block. Of course the file size in the >directory information includes all these extra ^Z characters :-( >Has this feature :-) been removesd from the recent versions of >Wordstar? It still does it but since a disk file always takes up disk space to fill an allocation block, nothing it lost by having a few (128 max) ctrl-Z's appended to a file. > >>And yes, I even still use WordStar. And admit it in public. :-) :-) > >I know lots of people who use Wordstar, but they get annoyed when they >don't have it for their UNIX box :-) ....then they switch to vi :-) >-- Well, I imprinted on WS about 7 years ago under CP/M and I would never think of using vi... tooooooooo many modes... give me emacs but then if I had a UNIX version of WS, I'd be even happier. marty