On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi! > >> BTW, what's the goal of EDLIN ??? Never used it ... > > It is there for nostalgic reasons and aims to be the DOS > text editor which is translated into most languages ;-) > > But actually even the author of MS EDLIN barely used it, > so we can be happy to also have our EDIT text editor.
EDLIN was dropped from MS-DOS base after 5.0, though IBM kept it a little longer, only dropping it from 7. It was intended to be replaced quickly but never was, probably because it was very light and could run on anything. >> But please keep DEBUG, I'm using it > > I agree. It is good to have a generic classic debugger > even when more fancy things like 386SWAT exist. DEBUG > is still great for smaller tasks, people are used to > the syntax and our DEBUG is actually quite extended :) To the point the DR DOS people actually took their SID debugger and hacked it into a version of DEBUG! (They had, originally, quite different syntaxes.) -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
