To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:43:38 -0700 Subject: Re: Fw: PTS-DOS Message-ID: <20000703.193645.-752193.0.domanspc@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3-11,13-21,23-28 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Robert W Moss 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 writes: > > DR-DOS > - Extremly bad text editor (I actually prefer using "echo" instead > of it) > > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.