On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 10:11:31 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> There is a very nice split-screen editor that is available from MIX
> software. These are the people who make the Power C compiler for
> DOS. I have their editor and I used to use it. All of their stuff
> is commercial payware supplied with very nice printed manuals and
> all for a very low bargain price. See http://www.mixsoftware.com
> Also you could use the Qedit editor or the freeware PEDIT. With
> (snip)
> I remember those ads from Mix Software for the Power C compiler for DOS, didn't
> think it would be still available these days with DOS falling out of favor. One
> critical issue regarding these text editors is whether they are limited to low
> DOS memory and unable to handle a file > about 360 KB.
I don't know exactly whatever may be the file size limitations for these
editors. From experience I think I can recall having had problems in
using these editors with files > about 360KB.
> One requirement, as far
> as I'm concerned, is the ability to see beyond this limitation, and to be able
> to handle more than one file, and hopefully be less bloated than GNU Emacs DOS
> port.
The way I deal with the problem is to use a file chopping utility to
make small ones out of big ones. Then I edit the various small ones
and concatenate them all back together again. Resorting to these
procedures is a real hassle, but that is one way of doing it and it
does work.
> Can OLIM handle large files such as might occur with a file of many email
> or news messages concatenated?
OLIM is a mail reading/viewing/encoding/decoding/composing program used
in conjunction with whatever POP3 client you are using. I have used it
with NetMail 2.12 for DOS as suggested. This particular POP3 client
downloads email messages as individual files. It does not concatenate
the messages like Nettamer does. I don't remember if OLIM assembles
all the downloaded messages and concatenates them. It has been a long
time since I have used OLIM. What I do remember well concerning my
experience with OLIM is that I was very favorably impressed with it and
I could recommend it to others to try. I don't know if OLIM has all the
features you need to satisfy your requirements, but I do believe you will
definitely find in it many features that you will like very much.
> Normally, to copy and paste from one file to another, you need to use the
> clipboard as an intermediary.
I don't know if the "clipboard" is a Windows-specific term. I do know
that when using DOS I can copy and paste. The memory buffer used for
facilitating this process might be called a "clipboard" for all I know.
Please correct my concept if I am wrong on my understanding of this
term.
> Getting everything to show on one screen requires
> much more Windows dexterity than I have, and my monitor is only 14".
You can deal with this problem by copying stuff from one window to
your clipboard, then by minimizing or moving the window so that you
can view the other window so that you can paste to the other whatever
is in your clipboard. I know this is a hassle alternating back and
forth from one window to the next in this manner, but that is the way
you have to do it with Windows unless you can discover some other ways
of skinning the proverbial cat.
Sam Heywood
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