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	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor
		WordStar recognizes that the most-often-used functions should be the easiest to physically execute.
		Other WordStar cursor-movement commands, some of which were mentioned earlier, make life extraordinarily easy (left and right end of line, top and bottom of screen, top and bottom of document, forward to specified character, backwards to specified characters — all touch-typable, all issued without ever taking my eyes off the screen).
		WordStar supports that, whereas, again, competing programs demands that I adapt to their method of doing things, instead of the other way around.
	www.sfwriter.com /wordstar.htm (2395 words)

	A Potted History of WordStar
		WordStar for Windows was too late to make a mark on the growing Windows word processor competition, and being basically a DTP program and not a Windows hosted version of WordStar for DOS, many WordStar users that tried it rejected it out of hand.
		WordStar 4 (NewWord plus minor additions) was too late, WordPerfect had already overtaken WordStar on the premise of easier use, and by providing better customer support (see: A Brief Personal History of PC Bugs).
		WordStar for Windows arrived too late and its updates from version 1.0, to 1.1, 1.5, and finally 2.0 were too slow to appear - it didn't stand a chance, which saw its price slashed to around 10-20% of its original price within two short years.
	www.wordstar.org /wordstar/history/history.htm (6859 words)

	WordStar 2000 Plus; the bionic word processor.
		Somehow, it had to revive the aging and ailing program and generate new interest--especially in the corporate and professional sectors.
		WordStar 2000 Plus includes all the features and functions you expect of a good, solid word processing program: insert, delete, block operations, search and replace, file merge, boldface, underlining, super- and subscripts, justification, centering, adjustable margins, and full cursor movement.
		WordStar 2000 Plus also converts document files to ASCII and then transmits them using the telecommunications program TelMerge.
	www.atarimagazines.com /creative/v11n5/44_WordStar_2000_Plus_the_b.php (673 words)

	wordstar file format release 7
		this is necessary for wordstar to know the previously selected style when moving backwards in the file without having to keep a list.
		when shifted in, wordstar no longer uses the 1bh/1ch wrap characters and interprets characters using the asian character standard which uses 81h-9fh and e0h-feh for a prefix followed by 20-7fh to form a complete character (values not in those ranges use only one byte.
		this number will change to reflect the version of wordstar when there is a revision in the style library that would cause incompatibilities between versions.
	www.moon-soft.com /program/FORMAT/text/wordst.htm (4594 words)

	Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - WordStar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The company was selling more copies of WordStar than ever, but it was largely due to the expansion of the PC marketplace, not to overwhelming market share.
		In the midst of a company name change (WordStar became SoftKey International) and internal squabbles, WordStar for Windows 2.0, based mostly on the older Legacy code, was released in early 1994.
		For years, WordStar was held as a prime example of what happens to otherwise successful companies that don’t innovate and move with the times.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=1&DicID=19648&RefType=Encyclopedia (1027 words)

	WordStar
		WordStar had relative weaknesses, such as an inability to reformat line justification as text was typed or deleted.
		WordStar Keyboard Command Emulators exist for current versions of Microsoft Word, and Word in turn can open WordStar documents when the appropriate filter is added, enabling users to move back and forth between the old standard and the new one.
		WordStar for Windows was also released under the name WordStar Personal Writer, and is a development of WordStar Legacy itself developed from a program called Legacy.
	www.computernostalgia.net /articles/wordstar.htm (1634 words)

	The Old Joel on Software Forum - Micro Pros WordStar Printer disaster – really?
		More to your point, I'm certainly not nearly enough of a developer to be able to authoritatively evaluate the complexity of their problem on the WordStar printer db issue, but unless there are important factors not revealed in the article, it doesn't seem like it would be the killer effort the program manager was describing.
		Wordstar was a small text processor at heart.
		Of course the WordStar example was that the whole database system "structure" was to be changed, not just a simple addition of a field.
	discuss.fogcreek.com /joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=21755 (3384 words)

	Writing About Microcomputers Chapter 1
		It was also the first time since I introduced the "WordStar Q and A" in the second issue that there was not a question and answer item.
		The eighth issue also had a "WordStar Q and A" that dealt with disk errors that can be encountered when trying to save a file.
		WordStar had a spelling check feature that recognized standard words and also allowed you to create your own dictionary of proper names and other types of words (such as technical terms not commonly used) that would otherwise be flagged as misspellings.
	www.dickinson.edu /~dempsey/thesis/thesis6.html (3136 words)

	Writing About Microcomputers Chapter 1
		It was also the first time since I introduced the "WordStar Q and A" in the second issue that there was not a question and answer item.
		The eighth issue also had a "WordStar Q and A" that dealt with disk errors that can be encountered when trying to save a file.
		WordStar had a spelling check feature that recognized standard words and also allowed you to create your own dictionary of proper names and other types of words (such as technical terms not commonly used) that would otherwise be flagged as misspellings.
	users.dickinson.edu /~dempsey/thesis/thesis6.html (3136 words)

	Cyber Resources for Journalists' Archive: Of WordStar Macros
		WordStar comes with preset macros for date and time and how these would be displayed will depend on the default setting.
		WordStar can be customised to give only one of these formats at a time.
		In WordStar 7 and newer word processing programs, you can record a macro by keying in the characters and issuing the commands needed in a sequence.
	cyberjournalist.org.in /archive/macros.html (1076 words)

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		Although WordStar was still the best word processor on the market until the mid-1980s, it still lacked some features, which annoyed users.
		WordStar might have been the most pirated software in the world, which in many ways accounted for its success.
		The original WordStar code base was replaced by a WordStar clone called NewWord, which was just like WordStar, but incorporated undo and other features.
	zia.hss.cmu.edu /miller/eep/news/wordstar.ne.txt (849 words)

	Word Star
		I think many people still debate whether or not WordPerfect was actually better than WordStar, but I think tools like grammar checking make WordPerfect the clear winner (although, I should note that grammar checking was a third party package for many years).
		WordStar could also be modified but it wasn't for the faint of heart.
		JoesOwnEditor and jed are two unix editors that come with WordStar key bindings (but they can also both be configured to use Emacs key bindings).
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?WordStar (607 words)

	Database marketing secures Oracle future
		WordStar users came to swear by this system, and today diehards still retrofit Microsoft Word and other products with add-ins and utilities that resurrect the WordStar keyboard system." WordStar was also the first WYSIWYG word processor, and dominated the DOS word processing market in the same way that Microsoft Word dominates the Windows market.
		Although WordStar made MicroPro the biggest PC software company in the world, MicroPro managed to blow it through a process that began with the falling out with, then sacking of, their entire development team, who then went on to produce a WordStar clone called NewWord.
		Then, realising that they had no way of delivering the next version of WordStar, they then bought another company that had built a Unix clone of WordStar to obtain their developers, who were then set to work on producing the next version of WordStar.
	www.dba-oracle.com /oracle_news/2004_6_29_rittman.htm (1765 words)

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		After testing, debate, paperwork and thumb-twiddling, the same WordStar 4 that the rest of humanity has been using for 18 months has been added to the Z-248 contract.
		WordStar 5, which I'll call WS5 from now on, is the biggest change to WordStar since the beginning and it's good.
		WordStar can be installed with levels one through three, and the old WordStar 4 menus are there.
	www.chips.navy.mil /archives/88_oct/file14.htm (2399 words)

	Jim's Random Notes - WordStar's commands were mnemonic?
		Depending on who you talked with, WordStar's command keys were either the greatest thing since the invention of the microchip, or they were cumbersome, non-intuitive, and generally the worst possible user interface ever devised.
		When Phillipe Kahn was asked why he chose to use the WordStar command set in the first version of Sidekick, he said that he asked a lot of people for their editor preferences.
		If it is true, it's a great bit of applied research: the command set might not be everybody's favorite, but everybody in the target audience would be able to use it without having to learn any new keystrokes.
	www.mischel.com /diary/2005/08/22.htm (384 words)

	Oldies But Goodies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If you are a newcomer to computing perhaps you have never heard of it but WordStar was probably the most widely used personal computer word processor of the early 1980's.
		That is all the editing and formatting, such as bold faced and underlined type, that was done in WordStar is retained in the PageMaker document.
		Having used WordStar for over twenty years I have no inclination to shift to WORD or any other word processor to compose the newsletter.
	www.toggle.org /html/0306art2.htm (590 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : HISTORY / detailed info
		WordStar was then the best selling software program of the early eighties.
		Paradoxically, one of the main reasons of its commercial success was that it has also been the most pirated software in the world for several years.
		WordStar source code was then sold to successive companies and the mythical word processor of the 80's sank gradually into oblivion.
	www.old-computers.com /history/detail.asp?n=41&t=4 (356 words)

	Blog.DanYork.com
		For all of you who still remember the key sequence "-K -D" and all the other sequences we had to learn at the dawn of the age of PC-based word processing, this series of stories from John Dvorak is for you.
		Like most folks who started using PCs in the late 1970s and early 1980s, WordStar was what we learned to use and inevitably came to have a love/hate relationship with.
		And as John recounts, I, too, recall the release of WordStar 2000 and the near-universal derision that accompanied that release.
	dyork.livejournal.com /tag/wordstar (319 words)

	Dvorak Uncensored » Whatever Happened to Wordstar?
		While Wordstar was still the best word processor on the market until the mid-1980’s it lacked a couple of features that annoyed users.
		Wordstar may have been the most pirated software in the world, which in many ways accounted for its success.
		Wordstar would later evolve into Wordstar professional and Wordstar for Windows (which developed a cult following), but it was an uphill battle despite superior usability.
	www.dvorak.org /blog/?page_id=8253 (2752 words)

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		FILTER PROGRAMS WordStar document files are not just ordinary files--they have many special characters in them to represent the soft carriage returns, soft hyphens, soft spaces, and print control characters that make WordStar's formatting so versatile.
		So there are many programs available to "harden" WordStar's soft format by filtering out the special characters, resulting in a file (often called a standard ASCII file) acceptable in even the most conservative circles.
		And because there are so many WordStar users, there are also filter programs to "soften" standard ASCII files, converting them to WordStar document files so they can be reformatted with all WordStar's tricks.
	www.retroarchive.org /cpm/cdrom/CPMINFO/CPM-CC05.ART (2487 words)

	WordStar Users Group :: The First Modern-Day Word Processor
		If you were looking for the WordStar web page and Mailing List that was originally on Cuenet.com, you've come to the right place.
		There are quite a few WordStar users who have their WordStar operating under Linux these days as well as on pure DOS and Windows systems.
		The WordStar and GNU/Linux Mailing List is available for answering your comments and discussing your experiences using WordStar and Linux.
	www.wordstar2.com (1016 words)

	WordStar software for sale
		The following old Wordstar software packages are in stock at EMS Professional Software Unless otherwise specified, each product includes ONLY original manuals and media in usable condition.
		WordStar software was producer at various times by MicroPro, WordStar International, and others.
		Wordstar 3.0, Spellstar 1.2, Mailmerge 3.0, CP/M?, 5.25"
	www.emsps.com /oldtools/w/wordstar.htm (226 words)

	In Search of Stupidity, Excerpts from Chapter 4
		A new version, WordStar 5.0, designed to build upon the momentum built by the successful 4.0 release, was being hurried along to market.
		When you installed a printer in WordStar and told the program to print, you could be fairly confident that your text would not appear upside down or in a character set that resembled Sanskrit.
		As in the development group had made the decision to discard the WordStar 2000 database and replace it with a new one based on hierarchical database technology.
	www.insearchofstupidity.com /ch4.htm (738 words)

	Oki Data User's Guide for the OL840 WordStar Professional, Release 5
		WordStar Professional provides access to most of your printer's text printing features.
		To change WordStar default printer settings such as page length and proportional spacing, you must use the WSCHANGE utility program.
		It should be noted, however, that any soft fonts to be used must be loaded prior to program use, and cannot be unloaded.
	my.okidata.com /Man840.nsf/MOCContents/38A56EA209BC5C4A852562F20040ED87?OpenDocument (557 words)

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		The WordStar file was KERMITed to the DEC-20 from an IBM PC by issuing SET FILE 8-BIT then SERVER to KERMIT-20, followed by a normal KERMIT-PC SEND command.
		This allows examination of the WordStar file on the DEC-20, and could be used for other 8-bit files as well.
		WordStar is not a well-designed formatter, in that it does not consistently identify document features.
	www.math.utah.edu /pub/tex/dvi/wsltex.let (263 words)

	WordStar and You (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During the period from the mid 1970's to the mid 1980's MicroPro WordStar ruled.
		WordStar was the first word processing program that was produced for microcomputers.
		The way that this was achieved was to use various combinations of Ctrl keys to give the same kind of editing commands that we currently do with arrow, etc. keys (and the mouse).
	home.nycap.rr.com /wlarmon/scrounge/wordstar.htm (392 words)

	[Wine]Wine success: HABit Wordstar Converter (version 3) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In case there are WordStar users on this list, you should know that all DOS versions of WordStar work perfectly using Dosemu on Linux systems.
		WordStar (all versions after WordStar 4) included filters for converting to ASCII as well as a wide variety of other formats.
		However, if all you have are WordStar DOS files and no copy of WordStar, then using this converter would be good.
	www.winehq.com /pipermail/wine-users/2005-March/017465.html (261 words)

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		In most instances the bindings follow the usual WordStar pattern but in the case of scrolling they have had to be changed because of conflict with a UNIX feature.
		It should also be noted that the usual VED bindings of ^D for ENTER lmr and ESC D for loadline have been changed due to a clash with the standard WordStar bindings for charright.
		Experienced Wordstar users should note that the usual Wordstar binding of ^Z (Control Z) for scrolling cannot be used in this library, instead ESC Z has been substituted.
	www.cs.bham.ac.uk /research/poplog/doc/pophelp/vedwordstar (211 words)

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