On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 06:09:07 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> EDIT.COM is not a "stand-alone" DOS text editor. It requires QBASIC and it
>> must load QBASIC into memory in order to work. PICO may be used as a
>> "stand-alone" program.
> Starting from MS-DOS 7 (or Windows 95, whatever you choose to call it),
> Edit is completly stand-alone. That is, no need for QBasic. Which
> could also explain why QBasic is no longer included. Or it could be
> the opposite: they wanted to remove QBasic, and leave Edit. So they
> compiled it to be standalone. Either this or that, its without
> QBasic now.
There are no Windows programs that can be run in a "stand-alone" mode.
If you try to run a Windows program as a "stand-alone" application, you
will get the following error message:
"This program requires MicroSoft Windows"
The Windows version of EDIT.COM most likely either has the necessary
components of the QBASIC object code compiled into it, or it relies
on a DLL having the same object code. Either this or that, or maybe both.
Don't know.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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