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  • C Chris Quinn

    I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]

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    DaveAuld
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    Aunty said "And he said that he hated spell-checking programmes because they were unlikely to recognise a lot of the words in a fantasy novel." Or pick the write won... :rolleyes: Should that not be programs? (The former is television/radio broadcasts etc.) Reading all the usage and definitions would suggest it should be the later: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/programme[^]

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      Aunty said "And he said that he hated spell-checking programmes because they were unlikely to recognise a lot of the words in a fantasy novel." Or pick the write won... :rolleyes: Should that not be programs? (The former is television/radio broadcasts etc.) Reading all the usage and definitions would suggest it should be the later: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/programme[^]

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      Chris Quinn
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      Wordstar has (or had) a spellchecker available called Spellstar. Most word processing software with built in spell/grammar checking allows you to switch it off, so this argument is spurious

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        Aunty said "And he said that he hated spell-checking programmes because they were unlikely to recognise a lot of the words in a fantasy novel." Or pick the write won... :rolleyes: Should that not be programs? (The former is television/radio broadcasts etc.) Reading all the usage and definitions would suggest it should be the later: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/programme[^]

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        Nagy Vilmos
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        So an article about spill chicken didn't pick up the mistake. :laugh:

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        • C Chris Quinn

          I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]

          ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

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          Dalek Dave
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          What a pretentious oik. He could just switch off the auto correct features. I think it more likely he does it so he can say he does it. I bet it annoys his publisher!

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          • C Chris Quinn

            I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]

            ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

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            CHill60
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            Remember the WordStar key sequence to quit a document without saving? It was Ctrl-K, Q, Y Any other keys hit and the document would not be lost. Reason I remember this so well? My kitten walking across the keyboard has fixed it in my memory for all (my) time! To this day, I still wonder if I hadn't shouted "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" would he have hit the 'Y' with that last paw? :(

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            • C Chris Quinn

              I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]

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              CPallini
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              That makes sense. There's a lof of fluff around, just to promote mediocrity.

              Veni, vidi, vici.

              In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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              • C Chris Quinn

                I also used to do Edlin. After a while we got a text editor called MultiEdit, which was so much better. One of our Unix programmers asked if there was a version of Multiedit for Unix - I said, no, but I can get you a copy of Vi for DOS!

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                Graham Cottle
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                I can remember the time when I was more into hardware than software and used to use 286 PCs for CAD and the like. Entirely DOS based. We asked for a word processor or text editor and the sysadmin asked "What do engineers need an editor for? What's wrong with Edlin?" Needless to say when we heard that one, we went and found some piece of freeware off the front of a magazine...

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                • B Brisingr Aerowing

                  Why get rid of something that works? I have a first-gen iPad, and I don't want a new one as the one I have works perfectly fine for what I use it for.

                  What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

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                  Maximilien
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                  until your favorite app is upgraded and will not be backward compatible!!!

                  I'd rather be phishing!

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                  • C Chris Quinn

                    I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]

                    ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

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                    Super Lloyd
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                    Good on him! ;P

                    My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!

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                    • C Chris Quinn

                      I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]

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                      "Disk operating system computers were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s". According to aunty, today's operating systems don't work with disks. :| /ravi

                      My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                      • C Chris Quinn

                        I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]

                        ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

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                        47_MasoN_47
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                        I guess it's still a step up from a typewriter.

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                        • RaviBeeR RaviBee

                          "Disk operating system computers were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s". According to aunty, today's operating systems don't work with disks. :| /ravi

                          My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                          A week or two ago my ex-wife was trying to impress me with the details of the new laptop her dad had just bought. "Did you know they don't come with hard drives any more?" she asked - "they come with it all on a thumb drive" I asked her if she meant operating system disc, but she insisted she was right - no hard drive. She then said "It's got a 15" screen, an A10 processor, 4Gb of memory and a 1Tb hard drive" I asked if it doesn't come with a hard drive, why has it got a 1Tb hard drive? She started to fluster then, and changed the subject!

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                          • C Chris Quinn

                            I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]

                            ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

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                            Jeremy Falcon
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                            He makes a good point. Someone should introduce him to vim.

                            Jeremy Falcon

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                            • C Chris Quinn

                              A week or two ago my ex-wife was trying to impress me with the details of the new laptop her dad had just bought. "Did you know they don't come with hard drives any more?" she asked - "they come with it all on a thumb drive" I asked her if she meant operating system disc, but she insisted she was right - no hard drive. She then said "It's got a 15" screen, an A10 processor, 4Gb of memory and a 1Tb hard drive" I asked if it doesn't come with a hard drive, why has it got a 1Tb hard drive? She started to fluster then, and changed the subject!

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                              Lost User
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                              That is why she the the ex-wife, you didn't let her win all the discussions/arguments.

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                              • D Dalek Dave

                                What a pretentious oik. He could just switch off the auto correct features. I think it more likely he does it so he can say he does it. I bet it annoys his publisher!

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                                Jeremy Falcon
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                                Dalek Dave wrote:

                                What a pretentious oOik.

                                I had to correct your capitalization. Remember, you must like my change to not be pretentious.

                                Jeremy Falcon

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                                • D Dan Neely

                                  The new subject involved your sleeping on the couch?

                                  Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                                  Chris Quinn
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                                  Why? I have my own bed!

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                                  • C Chris Quinn

                                    A week or two ago my ex-wife was trying to impress me with the details of the new laptop her dad had just bought. "Did you know they don't come with hard drives any more?" she asked - "they come with it all on a thumb drive" I asked her if she meant operating system disc, but she insisted she was right - no hard drive. She then said "It's got a 15" screen, an A10 processor, 4Gb of memory and a 1Tb hard drive" I asked if it doesn't come with a hard drive, why has it got a 1Tb hard drive? She started to fluster then, and changed the subject!

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                                    Dan Neely
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                                    The new subject involved your sleeping on the couch?

                                    Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                                    • C Chris Quinn

                                      I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]

                                      ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

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                                      mikepwilson
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                                      XyWrite FTW

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                                      • RaviBeeR RaviBee

                                        "Disk operating system computers were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s". According to aunty, today's operating systems don't work with disks. :| /ravi

                                        My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                                        LloydA111
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                                        This is the BBC we are talking about, they have the WORST reporting on Science and Technology you will ever see.

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                                        • C Chris Quinn

                                          I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]

                                          ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

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                                          DaveX86
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                                          I used to use PCWrite[^] ...I would still use it if it was still around. Went looking for the source code to try and port it to newer operating systems but alas, it was nowhere to be found. You could apparently get the source code if you bought the full version.

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