On 8 Sep 00 at 0:39, arachne-digest wrote:
> From: "Neil Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The disadvantage of EDIT.COM is that it cannot function all by itself as a
> "stand-alone", because it requires QBASIC in order to work.
> However, win95 edit.com weighs in much less, and I have no Qbasic in my 95
> system. Dos6.22 does have Qbasic, and does require it to run edit properly.
The EDIT.COM that came with all flavors of MS-DOS 6.x is the same. It's
just a shortcut to the QBASICC editor which is what does the work.
It is slow and cumbersome, and works on only one file at a time. (If you
didn't have EDIT.COM you could run the same editor by starting QBASIC with
the /EDITOR parameter.)
The EDIT.COM that comes with Winbloat 95 is a standalone pgm that can
handle large files without breathing hard, and can load more than one
file at a time. About the only nice text-editing feature that's missing
is word wrapping.
It works in MS-DOS 6.2 very nicely. Go to a Win95 (or 98) machine, copy
EDIT.COM, EDIT.INI, and EDIT.HLP to a floppy. Then copy them from the
floppy to the DOS dir of your MS-DOS machine.
Illegal? Maybe. Is Microsoft going to sue me for doing it? I won't hold
my breath waiting for that to happen.
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