-=> Quoting Tim Parsons to Jasen Betts <=-

 TP> Hi Jasen:

 TP> It was Friday April 25 2003. "wordstar and text modes,"
murmured you
 TP> to All. 
 JB> wordstar 4.00 is an excellent text editor for large files
 JB> especiall those that are bigger than available ram.
 JB> the only problem is it doesn't compensate for the text mode you run it in.

 TP> I haven't used WordStar in anger for ages (and WordStar 4 is a very
 TP> old memory indeed, although I still have WS6) but I'm sure it could be
 TP> configured in such a way that if you passed it a filename on the
 TP> commandline it would start in nondocument mode automagically... 
 TP> Bests,

You can do that with some configuring. With WS 5.x and later, you could
just add a switch to the commandline. I have to look it up, but it was
something like:

WS /n file


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