On 12 Sep 00 at 12:16, Neil Parks wrote:
>>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
>>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.
Not necessary at all. A compiled (edit.exe) is freely available from
Microsoft (I got mine somewhere else, and no I don't remember where).
It is V0.9.019 with a copyright date of 1994. It supports 2 document
windows. HTH.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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look down on at the same time. -- W. Garnett.
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