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Originally Posted by theducks
Wordstar DOS did not use rich text, it used Markup (those dot codes in the source
(I still have my WS5.5 5.25" floppies and manuals, just no surviving drives/equipment  ) |
If I remember correctly, in addition to the dot commands (such as ".pa" for a page break), Wordstar used some of the high-bit ASCII characters (those above ASCII 127 such as the double exclamation point) for it's markup. It bore a similarity to HTML except there was no "off" command. As an example, you inserted a code for bold (^b) and everything was bold from that point on until it encounter another bold code.