WordStar as a Data Text Editor

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This is a lateral transfer of a posting to the micropal listserver that
Jere Lipps though might be of interest to a wider audience.  If anyone out
there knows of other postings to other listservers that address issues of
interest to the Paleo. community at large, please pass them along.

Norm MacLeod


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>Date:         Mon, 14 Nov 1994 09:25:14 PST
>Reply-To: Curtis Clark <jcclark@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
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>From: Curtis Clark <jcclark@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
>Subject:      Possibly free column editor for data files
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>Date sent: 14-NOV-1994
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>If you have an old copy of WordStar stuck in a cupboard somewhere,
>you can dust it off and turn it into a passable data file editor.
>It does both insert and replace mode with columns.  Be sure to specify
>"non-document" mode (you can even choose this as default from the
>setup program) or it won't save as ASCII.  The older versions are
>actually better for this, because they are not bloated by the code needed
>for serious word processing.  Through version 6, at least, WordStar works
>fine under Windows, either full-screen or in a DOS window.
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Norman MacLeod
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N.MacLeod@uk.ac.nhm (Janet)

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