Date   : Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:48:28 +0000
From   : famrowland@... (Andrew Rowland)
Subject: EdWord docs?

I recall the excitement when Edword 2 came out. It had a number of 
really necessary extra functions, though I cannot recall what, right 
now. I also recall a utility disc with some extras and some printer 
definitions. When I was teaching in a modern languages department, I 
programmed a boot disc to load the extensions we needed for the school 
printers, and reprogrammed some characters to give us accents, IIRC. I 
got pretty familiar with the binary format of documents in memory as a 
result of having to rescue documents from memory when I and other staff 
accidentally pressed Break!

Has anyone got a copy of the utility disc?

Andrew
On 25.01.2016 09:47, J.G.Harston wrote:
>> >From what I remember some of the obscure things were loaded from disc
>>> when you pressed the magic key sequences.
>> Was it f9 then a key? f9 J for jumbo print for example. That one was
>> loaded from disc.
> EDWORD function keystrip is available here:
> http://mdfs.net/Apps/Printing/KeyStrips
>
> Yes, f9 allows you to call an external command stored in a file on disk.
>   From memory the Printout command was !EDP, so I think the external
> commands were stored in a file called !ED<keypress>.
>
> I wrote my first big school report with EDWORD. Then wrote a program to
> convert EDWORD files to plain text files:
> http://mdfs.net/Apps/Text/Edword
>
>>> Does anybody have any docs for EdWord kicking around, by any chance?
> I did have a couple of EDWORD manuals, but they went in my moving-house
> giveaway a few years ago. Should really have kept one for archiving.
>


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