Posted by Neredbojias on 04/10/06 08:48

To further the education of mankind, Jose <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com>
declaimed:

>> A short while ago some kind of wp files were
>> being discussed wherein you could save a single word and still have
>> something like a 12k file on disc. I happen to know Wordstar never
>> really made the transition from DOS to Windows for that very reason.
>
> Microsoft Word is more compact?

I don't know much about word-processors since I insist on using only text-
editors for anything and everything, and I suspect that MS Word is quite
"bloating" in its own right, but WS for Windows was horrible. I remember
playing with it and building-up a 384k file with just a handful of
paragraphs.

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Neredbojias
Infinity can have limits.

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