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Name Wordstar 2000
Version 1
Other names  
Identifiers Library of Congress Format Description Identifier:  fdd000552
PUID:  fmt/882
Wikidata QID Identifier:  Q105856544
Family  
Classification Word Processor
Disclosure  
Description Wordstar 2000 is a version of the Wordstar word proccessor application that was popular in the early to mid 1980s and was created by MicroPro. Wordstar 2000 files are likely to lack a file extension.
Orientation  
Byte order  
Related file formats Is subsequent version of WordStar for MS-DOS Document (7.0)
Technical Environment  
Released  
Supported until  
Format Risk  
Developed by MicroPro Inc
Supported by None.
Source National Library of New Zealand / National Library of New Zealand
Source date 18 May 2016
Source description Signature supplied by Jay Gattuso of the National Library of New Zealand. 08/2023 (v.113)- Max offset sequence expanded by 2 bytes. Submitted by the National Library of New Zealand.
Last updated 15 Aug 2023
Note http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/WordStar https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000552
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