> On Dec 6, 2022, at 5:46 PM, Harald Arnesen <skog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Jerome Shidel [06/12/2022 23.38]: > >>>> But I completely agree it would be nice to include some sort of text >>>> editor. Like MEM and MORE, it can be difficult to get along without having >>>> them on a boot diskette. But, at 65.9kb for EDIT.EXE + 29.4kb for >>>> EDIT.HLP, there is not enough room on the 720kb diskette set to include >>>> edit. Perhaps the 16-bit version of E3 at only 4kb could be included. Or >>>> possible, a different very light-weight editor. > > If we want to be compatible with MS-DOS, EDLIN is the only alternative. As is > ed the only standard Unix editor.
By comparison, EDLIN is rather big at 30kb. It would only leave about 30kb free on the 720kb disk. That is 26kb less space than using E3. Also, E3 is a screen editor not a line editor. But that being said, EDLIN is part of FreeDOS BASE and E3 is not. Also, a user looking for and editor on the diskette would probably know what EDLIN does by it’s name. On the other hand, they may not even notice E3 or realize what it does. So, EDLIN may be a better choice. IDK. Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
