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From: Peter Flass
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 14:15

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Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:38:49 -0700, Peter Flass
> <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> 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.

Fixed-width characters with no bold or italic. I think it used attributes
like underline and reverse video to indicate bf and ital.

> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Gene Wirchenko
> 



-- 
Pete

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