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Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

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rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a

Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

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

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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a

Wow, package management on an 8086!

http://svardos.org/

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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:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a

Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

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

Yeah, LO Writer is my stuff. I have WPS Office installed, too, just
for the hell of it, but I use LO.

I like the jstar invocation of Joe as I'm a wordstar fan...why would anyone
use anything else?

I wonder if there's a way to get LO to use the WS keybindings....

I do use LO when needed but Jstar --> enscript --> lpr for most of my
letters.

pH

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, pH wrote:

On 2025-01-01, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a

Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

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

Yeah, LO Writer is my stuff. I have WPS Office installed, too, just
for the hell of it, but I use LO.

I like the jstar invocation of Joe as I'm a wordstar fan...why would anyone use anything else?

I wonder if there's a way to get LO to use the WS keybindings....

I do use LO when needed but Jstar --> enscript --> lpr for most of my letters.

pH

Doesn't joe have some kind of jmacs as well?

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On 02/01/2025 11:24, D wrote:

Doesn't joe have some kind of jmacs as well?

https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
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On 2025-01-02, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, pH wrote:

On 2025-01-01, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a >>>>>
Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

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

Yeah, LO Writer is my stuff. I have WPS Office installed, too, just
for the hell of it, but I use LO.

I like the jstar invocation of Joe as I'm a wordstar fan...why would anyone >> use anything else?

I wonder if there's a way to get LO to use the WS keybindings....

I do use LO when needed but Jstar --> enscript --> lpr for most of my
letters.

pH

Doesn't joe have some kind of jmacs as well?

from the man page for Joe...

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 ]...


So it does a bunch...I think there is actually a WordStar clone for linux
out there but I've never investigated it.

I should try 'joe' by itself just to see....


pH

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On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, pH wrote:

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

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, pH wrote:

On 2025-01-01, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a >>>>>>
Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

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

Yeah, LO Writer is my stuff. I have WPS Office installed, too, just
for the hell of it, but I use LO.

I like the jstar invocation of Joe as I'm a wordstar fan...why would anyone >>> use anything else?

I wonder if there's a way to get LO to use the WS keybindings....

I do use LO when needed but Jstar --> enscript --> lpr for most of my
letters.

pH

Doesn't joe have some kind of jmacs as well?

from the man page for Joe...

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 ]...

So it does a bunch...I think there is actually a WordStar clone for linux
out there but I've never investigated it.

I should try 'joe' by itself just to see....

pH

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.

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On 03/01/2025 11:43, D wrote:

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.

It is actually a fantastic editor for unstructured plain text.

So ideal for writing a book.

Sometimes it is nice to gave a 'feature poor' interface that doesn't do
weird shit if you accidentally press a control key..


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On 12/31/24 8:09 PM, rbowman wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a

Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

IMO Word 6.0 was the last good version of the Word program series. I
think I still have install disks for Word 6.0 somewhere around here.
Everything after Word 6.0 was garbage. Today I use nano and emacs from
CLI to replace Word 6.0. There's also Wordgrinder which I've recently
started using. But man, Word 6.0 brings back good memories.

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On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 07:21:40 -0000 (UTC), pH wrote:

.I think there is actually a WordStar clone for linux
out there but I've never investigated it.

I run my old copy of WordStar 6.0 in dosemu -- mostly
just for kicks and to occasionally retrieve documents
from my life in the last century.

One gathers a lot of detritus as one slogs through life...
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with <vl9ad1$3vu59$1@dont-email.me> Phillip wrote:

On 12/31/24 8:09 PM, rbowman wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a
Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

IMO Word 6.0 was the last good version of the Word program series.

(correction) IMHO, 7.0 and 95 (I haven't been exposed to 97 (if that was
a thing)) are rebranding with possible minor fixes I can't point out.
So, 95 is last *usable* Word. That being said...

*SKIP* [ 4 lines 1 level deep]

But man, Word 6.0 brings back good memories.

Like, Doing transfer from paper to file by manual re-typing (yes, 120hpm
is good enough). Auto-save skips if you are typing at that moment.
50min later -- BAM! CRASH! FSCK! 50min of work went improving The Termal
Death. Yeah, good memories.

p.s. Yes, LO has crashed on me once, but it was 100page .docx. Now I
convert to .odt immediately and live happily ever after.

p.p.s. People! You can ship .odt and nobody notices. Yes, there might
be accidents, but GUM (aka The Management) is aware that different
versions of Word behave differently. And they are A-OK with this
because it's Word.

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On 1/4/25 1:18 PM, Eric Pozharski wrote:

with <vl9ad1$3vu59$1@dont-email.me> Phillip wrote:

On 12/31/24 8:09 PM, rbowman wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a
Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

IMO Word 6.0 was the last good version of the Word program series.

(correction) IMHO, 7.0 and 95 (I haven't been exposed to 97 (if that was
a thing)) are rebranding with possible minor fixes I can't point out.
So, 95 is last *usable* Word. That being said...

*SKIP* [ 4 lines 1 level deep]

But man, Word 6.0 brings back good memories.

Like, Doing transfer from paper to file by manual re-typing (yes, 120hpm
is good enough). Auto-save skips if you are typing at that moment.
50min later -- BAM! CRASH! FSCK! 50min of work went improving The Termal Death. Yeah, good memories.

p.s. Yes, LO has crashed on me once, but it was 100page .docx. Now I convert to .odt immediately and live happily ever after.

p.p.s. People! You can ship .odt and nobody notices. Yes, there might
be accidents, but GUM (aka The Management) is aware that different
versions of Word behave differently. And they are A-OK with this
because it's Word.

Isn't docx just an MS extended version of OpenDoc specs anyways? I think
I read that somewhere but I could be wrong. I did try Word 7.0 which was
fine, but I still preferred 6.0. Sure, it crashed (although for my much
less then 7.0. I think 7.0 was patched later on but I had already
returned to Word 6.0).

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On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 16:21:52 -0500, Phillip wrote:

Isn't docx just an MS extended version of OpenDoc specs anyways?

Microsoft tried standardizing it as ISO 29500, which is a complete mess.
There are supposed to be “transition” and “strict” modes, but nobody dares
to use the “strict” mode.

Compare the Open Document Format, ISO 26300, which is only a small
fraction of the complexity, and much easier to implement.

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with <vlc8pg$gkha$1@dont-email.me> Phillip wrote:

On 1/4/25 1:18 PM, Eric Pozharski wrote:

with <vl9ad1$3vu59$1@dont-email.me> Phillip wrote:

On 12/31/24 8:09 PM, rbowman wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/?td=rt-3a
Now's your chance to run Word 6.0.

IMO Word 6.0 was the last good version of the Word program series.

(correction) IMHO, 7.0 and 95 (I haven't been exposed to 97 (if that was
a thing)) are rebranding with possible minor fixes I can't point out.
So, 95 is last *usable* Word. That being said...

*SKIP* [ 8 lines 3 levels deep]

p.p.s. People! You can ship .odt and nobody notices. Yes, there
might be accidents, but GUM (aka The Management) is aware that
different versions of Word behave differently. And they are A-OK
with this because it's Word.

Isn't docx just an MS extended version of OpenDoc specs anyways?

Well, I'm not immersed, I can neither confirm nor deny.

I think I read that somewhere but I could be wrong.

I was exposed in more or less this order W6 (touched W2-fDos and
W4-fDos: touched only, because it failed to do anything useful from
getgo), then W7, then W95. Then it was OOo (something really ancient).
And then I was exposed to some modern Word.

Again, I'm not immersed (when I need typesetting (and I did some crazy
staff) I have latex, specifically koma-script), but I have questions
now.

*CUT* [ 3 lines 1 level deep]

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