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Article #621279Re: Old word processors
From: roger...
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:23
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:23
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On Monday, March 19, 2018 at 2:47:11 PM UTC-7, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > WS has two modes. One for plain text, one for a "word document" which can > have bold text among other. You only see plain ASCII characters in either > case. But in the word document mode you see \bThis is bold\b or > something. Only when it is printed on a printer you actually see bold > text (if the printer supports that). Depends on the terminal, actually. The display on the Otrona Attache could do anything WordStar could do, including italics. Using WordStar on it was magic. There's no reason someone couldn't build a terminal to do the same. -- roger ivie roger...@gmail.com
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