MicroPro Wordmaster 80

David Brown

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Mar 4, 2001, 7:30:41 PM3/4/01

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I have been searching the web looking for a copy of the full page screen
oriented editor which I used to use on CP/M systems for development. It
was called WM.COM or WM80.COM. It came with the sample bios templates to
adapt the video to any terminal input output.

I saw it someware a couple of weeks ago, but cannot seem to find it again.
I would like to locate it to use in my copy of the MYZ80 emulator with cp/m
3.0 .

Any help in locating this would be appreciated.

dave brown

da...@lcps.com

Richard Erlacher

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Mar 4, 2001, 9:18:51 PM3/4/01

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I'm in the thick of something else at the moment, but I do recall that
I still have a copy or two that I saw recently.

Check back with me in about a week and perhaps I can fix you up.

Dick

On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 00:30:41 GMT, "David Brown" <bro...@home.com>
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Mar 5, 2001, 2:15:19 PM3/5/01

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Have you tried
http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/text/text.htm

This appears to be Wordmaster, but haven't realley looked at it.

Mark Reid

Mark

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Mar 5, 2001, 2:47:32 PM3/5/01

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Try looking in the Commercial CP/M Archive at
http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/ under word processing / text editing.

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Barry Watzman

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Mar 5, 2001, 7:13:27 PM3/5/01

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What is the question about WordMaster ?

I have a copy of it, several versions in fact, 1.06 and 1.07. I
disassembled it to source code, and I ran the source code through an
8080 to 8086 source code translator, then converted it to MS-DOS. Yes,
I have a working copy [almost] of Wordmaster for MS-DOS. The only thing
is that Microsoft "broke" it at some point. It used to work perfectly,
under MS-DOS version 3 and perhaps version 5 or 6. But starting with
one of the later versions of DOS (5 or 6 or perhaps the DOS under Win95,
I don't remember), everything works except the very final rename of the
file being edited. For some reason, the final rename isn't done, it
leaves your edited file as filename.$$$. I could fix this if I wanted
to, and it's not fatal as you can then rename the file yourself
manually, but at this point I've lost the inclination to debug it and
resolve the issue.

Barry Watzman

Alex Plantema

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Mar 6, 2001, 1:58:38 PM3/6/01

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Barry Watzman wrote in message <3AA42B69...@neo.rr.com>...

>What is the question about WordMaster ?
>
>I have a copy of it, several versions in fact, 1.06 and 1.07. I
>disassembled it to source code, and I ran the source code through an
>8080 to 8086 source code translator, then converted it to MS-DOS. Yes,
>I have a working copy [almost] of Wordmaster for MS-DOS. The only thing
>is that Microsoft "broke" it at some point. It used to work perfectly,
>under MS-DOS version 3 and perhaps version 5 or 6. But starting with
>one of the later versions of DOS (5 or 6 or perhaps the DOS under Win95,
>I don't remember), everything works except the very final rename of the
>file being edited. For some reason, the final rename isn't done, it
>leaves your edited file as filename.$$$. I could fix this if I wanted
>to, and it's not fatal as you can then rename the file yourself
>manually, but at this point I've lost the inclination to debug it and
>resolve the issue.

Wordstar has the same behavior. The problem occurs under Windows 95 and
higher, but it works ok when I first exit to DOS.

Alex.

David Brown

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Mar 6, 2001, 10:31:09 PM3/6/01

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Thanks, I found it and am using it again now.

David Brown