14 Jul 12 13:14, mark lewis wrote to Denis Mosko:

 DM>>> Do you know this text processor?

 DM>> Word Perfect for DOS.

 ml> ok... some history... way back in the early days (CPM anybody?),

Bypassed for MSDOS...

 ml> there was wordstar and it was good... then a young upstart known as
 ml> word perfect came along... it was good, too... later something called
 ml> word came out of its closet and took over much of the word processing
 ml> world... many DOS editors, like program editors, use wordstar
 ml> commands... CTRL-KB, CTRL-KK, CTRL-KV, etc... wordstar was more for
 ml> touch typists... you didn't have to take your hands of the letter
 ml> keys to get anything done... word perfect moved everything to the
 ml> function keys... word? well... gak!

 DM>> In Russia it as unusually software
 DM>> (usualy Lexicon "word processor".

 DM>> And in Your country?

 ml> i don't know... i don't do word processing... anything i need to
 ml> write out is done in a general purpose editor...

Lexicon in this context probably means the morphemes of the 'word
processing' language the software is using.

I used Word to produce and publish a newsletter, but I also began 'word
processing' with that old WordStar software you mentioned. MSWord still
uses those WordStar commands, just like they never went away. The
difference is in the output *.DOC files they each produce.

Wordstar *.doc files can be tranformed into MSWord *.doc files, but it
takes a specially written chunk of software to do it. I still have a few
WS.doc files that I'd like to convert, but the few that I have doesn't
justify the cost of the software.

 ml> i've never seen a need to pretty things up with different fonts and
 ml> styles... just get it written and be done with it 

You should see some of the pages I produced with MSWord every month...they
also included imported pictures while keeping those different fonts in
place. Upper case titles w/lower case text in columns too. The most fun I
had with it was to produce a landscape (side-ways) calendar page in
MSWORD.

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