----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Gillett <[log in to unmask]>

> On 29 Sep 99, at 0:12, Jim Meagher wrote:
>
> should look like.
>
> > It has a system of embedding format codes directly into the text
> > using what we all "lovingly" called dot and double-dot commands.
> > These were strange and cryptic combinations of letters and numbers
> > that represented the commands for how we wanted the printed output
> > to look.
>
>   Actually, I think the dot (although perhaps not the double-dot)
> commands go back to a family of even-earlier "output formatter"
> packages:  roff, nroff, troff, groff, proff, and so on.  The idea
> that the program that you used to edit the text -- and to insert
> these codes -- would ALSO do the formatting and printing was still
> rather new-fangled when WordStar came along.
>

Yes, but I figured that there were only a few of us dinosours left <grin> to
recognize CP/M let alone earlier Operating Systems and their (?)
applications (?).

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