To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:43:38 -0700
Subject:	Re: Fw: PTS-DOS
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From:	Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com

DRDOS's text editor was written to emulate Wordstar commands. 
At that time Wordstar was the standard and most used word processor. 
It was written to take advantage of pure typist abilities to use the
little 
fingers on shift/control/alt keys in combination with other keys.  When 
Word Perfect came along they took over the word processor field 
because the powers that be in Wordstar INC didn't change fast enough
to suit the competition.

Those of you who were not around in circa 1985 problably don't know 
and have not heard anything about the old Wordstar, but DRDOS has 
kept an almost pure copyof the style.  It is a pretty powerful program 
if you have the time to study all of its capabilities.  A touch typist
will 
be able to learn it quickly, but for many who learned to Hunt And Peck 
it is difficult.

MSDOS's Editor  requires their Basic Program to be on the computer or 
it will not run properly if at all.

BOB "DOMAN" MOSS

On Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:06:47 +0200 (MET DST) Bernie
<bernie AT hem DOT passagen DOT se> writes:
> 
> DR-DOS
> - Extremly bad text editor (I actually prefer using "echo" instead 
> of it)
> 
>
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