XyWrite was cool even in South Africa

["Kari Eveli" lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

I stumbled on this piece of endearing memorabilia:
http://www.esn.org.za/pipermail/comp-studies/2011q4/003700.html

The XyWrite novice experience (quote from the above):
"How many of you remember that fantastic Word Processing program called
XyWrite? It was command line based but you could achieve almost magical
things with it - it had a whole set of commands which you could string
together and use with variables to write little macros or programs. The
first day I started using it I spent a whole night trying to create a new
file. Literally 'a whole night', into the morning hours. The help file said
press F9 to execute a command. So I tried all sorts of permutations to
create a new file - typing in the command 'ne' or 'new' with various file
names - and pressing F9. Whatever I did, this 'box' didn't want to
cooperate. The next morning I asked someone what I did wrong - the one
person in the community who knew something about computers - the solution: I
had to press ENTER instead of F9!"

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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