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Originally Posted by Notjohn
I can't use more recent iterations of Word than 2003 because they lack the ability to open WordStar files. WordStar is the best of all possible word processors, and I'll not give it up until I am no longer able to beat Windows into submission to run a DOS program, not even for your plug-in! It would be like touch-typing with just one hand!
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Please. This whole "
WordStar is the best" hoo-hah is nothing but nostalgia, comfort-level, and familiarity. If it's so perfect, why do you need to be able to open its finished product in Word at all?
If it was truly "
the best of all possible word processors," they'd still be selling versions of it for the latest Windows. It's more like; "
I already put my time in learning the ins and outs of WordStar and have no desire to spend the time necessary to do the same with a newer Wordprocessing program, so I cling desperately to the past while convincing myself that I do so for purely objective "betterness" reasons rather than it simply being a case of subjective personal preference and a lack of desire to retool."
Nothing at all wrong with wanting to stick with what you know. It's just not reasonable to expect the rest of the world to accommodate your dated preferences
ad infinitum.