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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 05:38

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On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 07:15:01 -0700, Peter Flass
<peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>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.

     And was configurable for the terminal.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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