Hello,
I'm a new subscriber, not a programmer, but interested in lean systems
-- and also a person with a DOS-y childhood. Now I'm getting to know
FreeDOS, reading the mailing list archives. It is wonderful to find
such a lively community around an "old" system (as in, it being a
MS-DOS derivate) like this.
(Also, Jim, I am taking time to watch your C tutorials on Youtube. You
seem to be a really wonderful, humble person. A great teacher.)
Also, having used Tiny Core Linux as a daily driver, I am blown away
by how fast FreeDOS boots!
However, I am a fan of the Sam text editor, originally developed for
the Plan 9 OS. It has a CLI line editor mode ('sam -d' -- similar to
'ed', but purposefully with a few less commands). Sam has been ported
to Windows, but on FreeDOS I got the "This program cannot be run in
DOS mode" error.
Unfortunately, I am not capable enough to try building it for FreeDOS
myself -- so I was wondering if maybe somebody could help?
A current Win32 port built with MinGW (+sources) can be found here:
http://sam.cat-v.org/_files/win32_sam.zip
Also, here are Rob Pike's original papers on Sam and its (IMO) main
selling point, structural regular expressions:
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/sam_tut.pdf
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf
As a workaround, I could also use Edlin in place of Sam.
But is there a way to turn line numbers off in Edlin?
This would be great for writing things other than code.
Thanks very much in advance,
also, thanks again for all the devs (Jim & others) behind FreeDOS!
Greetings from Estonia,
Mart
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