Trixter
Veteran Member
Yes, but can you type your name and end up with a valid command sequence?
You can? A quick disassemble of "chuckguzis" shows some garbage
Yes, but can you type your name and end up with a valid command sequence?
You can? A quick disassemble of "chuckguzis" shows some garbage
You must be joking!!! I'm not laughing!
I remember having to do computer science projects using VI editor. Painful experience. Some people thought it was the shiznit.
Someplace on one of my computer HDs , I have a diatribe against the use of "Word" which was entitled "Microsoft Word is Not a Text Transfer Program". As a matter of course I would send it to offices of the provincal government who, using their newest "Office" installed computers would send me messages encoded in this proprietary format. Some of my protests even elicited messages of agreement. My main computer did not have MS$ "Word" installed, altho on one of my boxes, I will admit now, I did have Word 1 in both English and French. I also have "Word Viewer" on several machines for self-defense.
Much of my opposition was based on not having MS$ controlling transfer of text messages.
I had no fondness for the formerly Mormon-controlled WP and it's similarly controlled architecture, nor Wordstar's intricacies or Lotus AMI's walk-the-middle-ground. Notepad or Write served my needs without embellished formattng. My 2-fingered style of typing worked fine wth them. There are DTP programs should I want to go "fancy".
So now, MS$ having eviscerated "Write", I retain a healthy oppostion to "Word" and can only wish this was some sort of anniversary of it's death as a program, clearing the way for the many superior wordpackaging programs around, which are more or less Free.
Lawrence
I've got what I think is the best collection of "tight" programs for DOS. I haven't published it because that would be a nightmare of checking legalities. Many are free, some are shareware, and a few are "other".