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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 23:33

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On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:38:49 -0700, Peter Flass
<peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>What's your distinction? I seem to recall that Wordstar wasn't WISIWIG. The
>only difference between Wordstar and something like Script is what you use
>for markup: control characters vs. dot-commands.

     WordStar was WYSIWYG within the limits of a character-only
terminal.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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