The program gives options for replacing soft-spaces, etc., with hard-spaces to keep the layout with a fixed-pitch font, and for converting WordStar extended characters to the Windows equivalent. The 16-bit (Windows 3.x) version is designed for WordStar 4 files, but will also cope with earlier WordStar versions. The converter is available in versions for Windows 95 and later, and for Windows 3.x as detailed below: Windows 3 The HABit WordStar Converter WSCONV runs in Windows rather than DOS, so may be an easier alternative for non-DOS users who need access to old WordStar files. The HABit WordStar Converter runs under Windows, with versions for Windows 3, and Windows 95 and later, and can convert most WordStar for DOS, including WordStar 2000 for DOS, files into plain text, text with formatting, or HTML formats.

This entry was posted in MS-DOS, random updates by neozeed. (I won’t even talk about Microsoft Word, about which I have nothing printable to say).įor anyone chasing Wordstar nostalgia, you can leaf through the manual. Mock if you must… but WordStar and DOS are both stable as rocks, and never give me the sort of headaches I get from Windows. I write with WordStar 4.0 on a pure DOS-based machine. My work machine does not even use Windows (which I loathe). I do my writing on a completely different computer than the one I use for email and the internet, in part to guard against viruses, worms, and nightmares like this. If I wanted a capital, I would have typed a capital. I hate some of these modern systems where you type a lower case letter and it becomes a capital letter. “I actually like it, it does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn’t do anything else,” Martin told Conan O’Brien.

On a dedicated MS-DOS computer of all things.Īs he says, he likes Wordstar because it doesn’t try to think for him, and he likes MS-DOS because there is no distractions. So apparently it’s all the news, The best selling series, Game of Thrones was written using Wordstar 4.

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