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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
Last updated 18 May 2016
Note http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/WordStar https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000552
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