Re: For The Word Lovers

On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, pH wrote:

On 2025-01-02, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, pH wrote:
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On 2025-01-01, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a
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Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

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The last Word I liked was Word 95. After that it grew ever more rococo.

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Yeah, LO Writer is my stuff.  I have WPS Office installed, too, just
for the hell of it, but I use LO.
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I like the jstar invocation of Joe as I'm a wordstar fan...why would anyone
use anything else?
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I wonder if there's a way to get LO to use the WS keybindings....
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I do use LO when needed but Jstar --> enscript --> lpr for most of my
letters.
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pH
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Doesn't joe have some kind of jmacs as well?

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from the man page for Joe...
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 joe [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
      jstar [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
      jmacs [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
      rjoe [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
      jpico [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
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So it does a bunch...I think there is actually a WordStar clone for linux
out there but I've never investigated it.
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I should try 'joe' by itself just to see....
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pH
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My view is that joe is actually quite capable but lives its own life away from the mainstreet. As you say, maybe I should look into it a bit more.