Re: New WiFi adapter

On 2025-06-06 06:46, c186282 wrote:

On 6/5/25 7:15 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-05 10:49, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 04/06/2025 23:58, c186282 wrote:

On 6/4/25 4:21 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 20:47:08 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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   Umm ... are we talking WordSTAR or WordPERFECT here ?
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WordStar produced plain text files It was an editor.

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It had a method to indicate underline, bold, double size... I don't remember how. Hidden codes like ".XY"?
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But then it had trouble calculating the page size. I believe I had to force page jump earlier.
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Word produced its own format -  it  was a primitive word processor
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   I've used both - indeed even WS on a Kaypro CP/M box -
   but WordPerfect was much better. The old boss still
   used it for everything until he retired a few years
   ago. Fortunately LibreOffice could at least READ WP
   files (not sure if ever became able to write them).
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Word Perfect was in many ways Perfect...Just enough features to be useful to write letters and short documents on with an easy interface.

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Indeed it was perfect. I could have complicated pages and it still got the page size correct.

    WS was "early". However it was GOOD for the times.
   Whatever it was, you could probably get it done.
   Note noisy dot-matrix printers were standard then.
    The OkiData's were especially noisy - but ROBUST.
   I think you can still buy those. Super-good for
   multi-page invoice forms.
    Ah ...

I think I wrote a wordstar "driver" for my printer. There was perhaps a program to do it. Or a menu option. It was better than the similar driver it came with, but still had trouble calculating the exact page size. It was a Star NL10 (I still have it). 9 pin.
https://www.msx.org/wiki/Star_NL-10
<https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2522> The Mythological Star NL-10, and Re-Inking a Dead Dot Matrix Printer Ribbon
LOL. I re-inked the ribbons myself many times, to save money. Black stamp ink diluted in alcohol, then soaked the ribbon on it, then let the alcohol dry.
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Cheers, Carlos.