Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size
I see a subject line of No subject; I must have forgotten to copy the intended subject line. Going back to 2001, I used Enhanced Editor (EPM) in OS/2 Warp 4, but was forced off this editor cold-turkey when the system crashed sometime during the single-digit days of April 2001. CHKDSK, running automatically upon reboot, ran amok and trashed my data, and I was never again able to boot OS/2, even from floppies, it always trapped (000c or 000e). So then I used Tiny Editor (T.EXE) and DOS port of elvis in DR-DOS 7.03. As I tried to retrieve data, I ran DR-DOS from floppy and Iomega Zip 250. Tiny Editor was more beginner-friendly, but elvis was much more capable. I believe the vi I use is nvi, not ported to DOS as far as I can see. NetBSD calls it vi, while FreeBSD calls it both vi and nvi, hard-linked. FreeBSD but not NetBSD also has ee (Easy Editor). Gentoo (Linux) likes to use nano when I prefer nvi! Tom -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size
It would seem that is the logical solution. I thank you all for the advice. I have compared a few editors and have decided to start with Setedit. I am updating a bible translation (The Concordant Literal Translation) which I originally compiled for my BibleWorks program using UltraEdit in Linux. The Old Testament text recently received a long overdue update and I wish to update my text to correspond to the new one using a DOS text editor first (for kicks - if that's OK - just to see if I can. I split the OT text out and it loads fine and updates changes quickly. Of course I will be backing up my efforts in Linux with UltraEdit. On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Christopher Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps change it to support ems/xms blocks so you can load the rest of the text beyond the first 64k? -- -Chris Evans Computer Consultant, Systems Administrator, Programmer, PC technician, and Hackreperneur Digitalatoll Solutions Group (Tawhaki Software) Cell. : 916-612-6904 | http://www.tawhakisoft.com/ Office: 916-382-9395| http://www.digitalatoll.com/ Skype: chris.evans450 | http://digitalatoll.net/ Domain for sale : http://norcalhost.com/ On Mar 13, 2015 5:16 AM, dosgeek57 donr...@gmail.com wrote: This is my number one request for FreeDOS 1.2/2/0. Can we PLEASE increase the FreeDOS edit capacity to at least match the capacity MS-DOS edit? I get so aggravated trying to open included .txt files with various DOS programs only to find that the file exceeds the capacity of FreeDOS edit. -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDOS-Edit-maximum-file-size-tp22006.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size
FDNPKG keeps all editors inside its util repository. Currently I see there are 6 editors there, which seem a bit too little to create a separate category. Mateusz, I am a fan of your FNDPKG system and I use it in Real FreeDOS Mode. I have customized the all_cd to work perfectly on my various computers (Compaq Armada 1700 1750 laptops, HP Elite 8000, Compaq D510, HP DC5700), so I must disagree. While six (or seven if you included setedit) does not constitute a large repository, if one desires (or needs) to learn two or three of these editors to fit one's needs then the edit repo is, IMHO justified (not to mention that there would be less confusion to the end-user; I can think of several util packages that should be in the base repo). On the other hand if there were one editor such as your own Saucy (or FD edit) that were capable of opening a text file of the entire Bible without hanging (which MS-DOS edit can do) then the edit category might not be necessary as a separate repo. So why so many editors? FreeDOS EDIT works on 8086, if you can find any of those in your museum. It is also a demo use for a nice user interface toolkit, which you could also use to program other tools. It has a calendar and an ASCII table. Just a nice small multi-file text editor as default FreeDOS editor :-) But what IS the maximum file size in MS DOS EDIT? I have tested it on the largest text file which I have and that is my current project: a translation of the bible which is 4.3mb and it works fine and doesn't hang. On the FreeDOS web page, the description of FreeDOS edit is: FreeDOS improved clone of MS-DOS Edit and sadly, this is simply not true. While it is the go to editor for batch files and FDCONFIG, I could not recommend it as a drop-in replacement for MS-DOS EDIT. I LOVE FreeDOS and wish it to succeed into the next decade at least; and this is my point, I use FreeDOS in real mode, as if it were an alternate operating system. I am an actual (registered) user of the DOS programs that were the ultimate programs of the DOS age: Lotus 123, dBase WordPerfect. Besides these, I also use on a daily basis Online Bible, Alpha Four and Mpxplay. There is only one program that I own that currently does not work in FreeDOS (a tsr dictionary - but I use another which is almost as good). I don't know what the plan is going forward. I suppose that FreeDOS is good enough as it is, but it would be way cool if it could be better - better than the illegal but much downloaded MS-DOS 7.10. On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: On 13/03/2015 17:59, Don Flowers wrote: Is there a reason the edit category is not included in the fdnpkg install program or the all_cd iso? Actually FreeDOS categories do not translate directly into FDNPKG repositories. FDNPKG keeps all editors inside its util repository. Currently I see there are 6 editors there, which seem a bit too little to create a separate category: blocek 1.4 - A graphical text editor with unicode and pictures formats support elvis 2.2 - a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor. Supports nearly all vi/ex commands fed 2.24 - A folding text editor with color syntax highlighting and more mbedit 8.64 - mbedit is a full screen text editor with macro option, online calculator, command history buffer, hex editor a msedit 0.11 - Mateusz' Saucy Editor pico 3.96 - simple text editor in the style of the Pine Composer tde 5.1v - TDE is a simple, public domain, multi-file/multi-window binary and text file editor written for IBM PCs and close Setedit is not present there (package contributions welcome!) cheers, Mateusz -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size
On 13/03/2015 17:59, Don Flowers wrote: Is there a reason the edit category is not included in the fdnpkg install program or the all_cd iso? Actually FreeDOS categories do not translate directly into FDNPKG repositories. FDNPKG keeps all editors inside its util repository. Currently I see there are 6 editors there, which seem a bit too little to create a separate category: blocek 1.4 - A graphical text editor with unicode and pictures formats support elvis 2.2 - a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor. Supports nearly all vi/ex commands fed 2.24 - A folding text editor with color syntax highlighting and more mbedit 8.64 - mbedit is a full screen text editor with macro option, online calculator, command history buffer, hex editor a msedit 0.11 - Mateusz' Saucy Editor pico 3.96 - simple text editor in the style of the Pine Composer tde 5.1v - TDE is a simple, public domain, multi-file/multi-window binary and text file editor written for IBM PCs and close Setedit is not present there (package contributions welcome!) cheers, Mateusz -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: FDNPKG keeps all editors inside its util repository. elvis 2.2 - a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor. Supports nearly all vi/ex commands Not to nitpick, it's still a good editor (at least in features), but isn't the 2.2 build horribly crippled for DOS? It runs out of memory VERY easily. IIRC, some few people preferred old 1.8 for that reason. Actually, I like vi, but I don't have any huge preference. VIM 7.1 was last with 16-bit (limited subset) version. VIM 7.3 is last for (abandoned) 32-bit DOS! Overall, I probably prefer VILE (32-bit DJGPP), but for 16-bit I guess I'd go with (ancient) Stevie. There are some others I'm mostly forgetting (e.g. newer 16-bit XVI [multi-win] that someone compiled with OpenWatcom, which actually includes its own 32-bit vi clone). -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: FDNPKG keeps all editors inside its util repository. Currently I see there are 6 editors there, which seem a bit too little to create a separate category. Mateusz, I am a fan of your FNDPKG system and I use it in Real FreeDOS Mode. I have customized the all_cd to work perfectly on my various computers (Compaq Armada 1700 1750 laptops, HP Elite 8000, Compaq D510, HP DC5700), so I must disagree. While six (or seven if you included setedit) does not constitute a large repository, if one desires (or needs) to learn two or three of these editors to fit one's needs then the edit repo is, IMHO justified (not to mention that there would be less confusion to the end-user; I can think of several util packages that should be in the base repo). BASE usually means FreeDOS core software, which is (mostly, as much as possible) trying to be exactly compatible with MS-DOS. It's quite large, IMHO, and probably includes some cruft, but overall FD people here don't want to change/remove/add anything to it at this point. Maybe for FreeDOS 2.0, but not for minor point releases like 1.2 (if someone ever decides to release that). What util packages would you add to base? On the other hand if there were one editor such as your own Saucy (or FD edit) that were capable of opening a text file of the entire Bible without hanging (which MS-DOS edit can do) then the edit category might not be necessary as a separate repo. My copy of (plain text) Douay Rheims from Project Gutenberg is roughly 6 MB. Is that comparable? Usually editors don't load the whole thing into RAM, only pieces. Even then, it depends on APIs (raw, EMS, XMS, DPMI) and cpu (8086, 286, 386). There are good 16-bit editors out there, but nothing is perfect for all uses. Normally, you're not going to edit the Bible anyways. (Or maybe you're part of an official translation team or want to fix typos.) Just use a viewer, e.g. PG (from UTIL): http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=pg But what IS the maximum file size in MS DOS EDIT? I have tested it on the largest text file which I have and that is my current project: a translation of the bible which is 4.3mb and it works fine and doesn't hang. It's impossible to fit 4.3 MB entirely in conventional memory without some kind of compression. Maybe it's using EMS (which most 8086s didn't have), but I doubt it. More likely it's just not loading it all at once, only in pieces. Are you sure you can view the entire file? Try editing at the very top and then at the very bottom. It's probably swapping to disk somewhere. Certainly I've seen 16-bit real-mode editors that can handle 500 kb, but there's no way to do really large files without some kind of help (swapping to disk or expanded/extended RAM). Even just saving changes only wouldn't work after a while although that might be more efficient in size. On the FreeDOS web page, the description of FreeDOS edit is: FreeDOS improved clone of MS-DOS Edit and sadly, this is simply not true. While it is the go to editor for batch files and FDCONFIG, I could not recommend it as a drop-in replacement for MS-DOS EDIT. Maybe it's a bad assumption, but I assume that people are savvy enough to find a better editor that works for them. There are dozens of them, so it's really not that hard. But first you have to know what you want. If you need more than small files, you'll have to use something else. (E.g. CC386 compiler includes his own 32-bit editor, Infopad, which IIRC was loosely based upon D-Flat.) I LOVE FreeDOS and wish it to succeed into the next decade at least; I don't want to be pessimistic, but most development has stalled (or stabilized). and this is my point, I use FreeDOS in real mode, as if it were an alternate operating system. Well, yes, we all use real mode, but I assume you're not running on 8088/8086. Most people don't. So just use a 386+ port of a different editor. I like TDE, but VILE is also good. Heck, we also have GNU Emacs 23.3 (/current/v2gnu/em2303b.zip, 40 MB) found on any DJGPP mirror! I am an actual (registered) user of the DOS programs that were the ultimate programs of the DOS age: Lotus 123, dBase WordPerfect. Long dead, sadly, and hard to find. Besides these, I also use on a daily basis Online Bible, Alpha Four and Mpxplay. I still need to figure out how to install and run OLB (under VirtualBox: RCtrl-Home??; under QEMU: Ctrl-Alt-2, change floppy0 /rugxulo/blah.img)!!! I've got (unreleased 0.2) MetaDOS floppy .img. I did make it 100% transparent to recompile the (patched) kernel and download OLB from Simtel mirror. Other than that, I haven't figured out install yet. There is only one program that I own that currently does not work in FreeDOS (a tsr dictionary - but I use another which is almost as good). I don't know, I haven't used lots of DOS dictionaries, thesauruses, spell checkers, etc. Some few exist (ispell?), but I
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size
Hi, On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: I had actually forgotten about setedit (and have probably forgotten how to use it as well). Is there a reason the edit category is not included in the fdnpkg install program or the all_cd iso? I don't mind relearning it. I downloaded it, but it won't start and I apparently didn't get all of the program. Am I using the wrong repo? What file did you download? Not that I've used SETEDIT except out of curiosity once or twice. IIRC, it was last updated for DJGPP in 2004, and you have to use the installer version. (I don't remember about the other *b.zip version, maybe that assumes installing into your DJGPP tree??) Try this: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/setedit/edi054i.zip -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size
Hi, On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: This is my number one request for FreeDOS 1.2/2/0. Can we PLEASE increase the FreeDOS edit capacity to at least match the capacity MS-DOS edit? I get so aggravated trying to open included .txt files with various DOS programs only to find that the file exceeds the capacity of FreeDOS edit. While it's not impossible for an 8086 text editor to edit larger files, most developers either don't know how or don't care enough. (Be glad it's 64 kb. Some editors [e.g. e3-16] are 32 kb!!!) I could try to point you to a dozen others, but I don't know how easy they are to rebuild (if at all). But what IS the maximum file size in MS DOS EDIT? Dunno. Unless it swaps to disk, it's probably much less than 640 kb, obviously. Unless it uses raw or EMS or XMS (or DPMI?), which I doubt. Years ago, Mateusz made his own Saucy Editor in a similar style to MS EDIT, if you want to try it. IIRC, it's compiled by FreeBASIC, thus DJGPP-based (like most other semi-current DOS editors). Though it's not really maintained anymore, apparently. http://sourceforge.net/projects/msedit/files/msedit/v0.11/msedit_v011.zip/download I just tried with FreeDOS EDIT while I had 626 kB DOS memory free: The limit per file seems to be exactly 64000 bytes, but you can open several of those as long as you have enough memory. Yes, that's another feature: being able to open several different files. Obviously such a single size limit can be inconvenient if your files are really big (which is why I don't personally use FD EDIT at all), but it's not a bad editor. Keep in mind that the easy solution is to port it to 386+ (DPMI etc.), which has already been suggested to the maintainer, but he hasn't had the interest (and, most importantly, not nearly enough time) to do it lately (AFAIK). Of course there are many other editors in our distro which you can use as alternative editors at any time: http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=edit Blocek is 32-bit (FPC, GO32V2, DPMI). Freemacs is 16-bit (TASM), also (IIRC) limited to 64 kb per file. OSPEDIT had several different compiles, but I can't remember the details. The rest are compiled by DJGPP (32-bit DPMI) with maybe a limited 16-bit version on the side. Normally DJGPP-compiled apps have no trouble editing files of dozens of MB. I use TDE (specifically, TDEP) all the time without issue, but I don't obviously do a lot with GBs. But for average use, it works fine. The problem with other editors is that they are unfamiliar and not feature-complete, compared to standard MS EDIT. Obviously, compatibility was considered a high priority. For example SETEDIT and TDE let you edit files which are several megabytes big and Blocek and Mined even support Unicode! Blocek is graphical and requires a mouse (IIRC) unlike Mined. (I'm not complaining, just sayin'!) ;-) Also, SETEDIT and TDE look similar enough to MS DOS EDIT, so you can enjoy them all :-) Hmmm, well, they have menus, but otherwise aren't so similar. (AFAIK) SETEDIT was the basis for RHIDE. But neither of them have been updated in years. Actually, neither has TDE (still stuck to unreleased 5.2 beta with bugs, last I heard). (Rugxulo: Please mirror blocek 1.4b, small fix :-)) This is the first I've heard of it. (I think I'll split that into a separate reply.) So why so many editors? FreeDOS EDIT works on 8086, if you can find any of those in your museum. It is also a demo use for a nice user interface toolkit, which you could also use to program other tools. It has a calendar and an ASCII table. Just a nice small multi-file text editor as default FreeDOS editor :-) Yes, Aitor's port of D-Flat was important to him to separate out. I never looked too closely, though. Not a lot happening with it lately. With TDE, SETEDIT or the Unicode editors, you get a lot more power. They work on any 386 or newer PC, in the Unicode case any 386 with VGA or better graphics. Of course you can also use any editor to edit text and just convert it later to Unicode (presumably UTF-8). Though Mined is pretty darn cool (as is GNU Emacs), so it's very nice to have such choices. I just sadly don't write enough i18n stuff to need it that much. -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size
This is my number one request for FreeDOS 1.2/2/0. Can we PLEASE increase the FreeDOS edit capacity to at least match the capacity MS-DOS edit? I get so aggravated trying to open included .txt files with various DOS programs only to find that the file exceeds the capacity of FreeDOS edit. -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDOS-Edit-maximum-file-size-tp22006.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size
Hi Dosgeek! This is my number one request for FreeDOS 1.2/2/0. Can we PLEASE increase the FreeDOS edit capacity to at least match the capacity MS-DOS edit? I get so aggravated trying to open included .txt files with various DOS programs only to find that the file exceeds the capacity of FreeDOS edit. But what IS the maximum file size in MS DOS EDIT? I just tried with FreeDOS EDIT while I had 626 kB DOS memory free: The limit per file seems to be exactly 64000 bytes, but you can open several of those as long as you have enough memory. Of course there are many other editors in our distro which you can use as alternative editors at any time: http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=edit For example SETEDIT and TDE let you edit files which are several megabytes big and Blocek and Mined even support Unicode! Also, SETEDIT and TDE look similar enough to MS DOS EDIT, so you can enjoy them all :-) (Rugxulo: Please mirror blocek 1.4b, small fix :-)) So why so many editors? FreeDOS EDIT works on 8086, if you can find any of those in your museum. It is also a demo use for a nice user interface toolkit, which you could also use to program other tools. It has a calendar and an ASCII table. Just a nice small multi-file text editor as default FreeDOS editor :-) With TDE, SETEDIT or the Unicode editors, you get a lot more power. They work on any 386 or newer PC, in the Unicode case any 386 with VGA or better graphics. Cheers, Eric -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS EDIT (was XDMA, SHSUCDX and other split-version programs)
Eric: PLEASE stop posting MULTIPLE topics in a SINGLE email. This makes it very difficult for anyone to find reply to your posts!!! :-| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More talking about split programs, by the way: EDIT 0.7c should be better than 0.82 in most aspects at the moment, please let me know if EDIT 0.7c is worse than 0.82 in any important way... MEM 1.7 beta is better than 1.6 as far as I can tell, and MEMA by Arkady is mostly different but neither better nor worse than MEM, but this is better explained by Arkady. I most probably have overlooked some bugs or features in either of the MEMs. Whatever. I had tried to contact Joe Cosentino off-list, but never heard back from him, even after several re-attempts. So I'll assume that Joe doesn't mind that Eric has forked a copy of FreeDOS EDIT. I've mirrored Eric's releases of his new forked EDIT at ibiblio (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/edit/eric/) and modified Eric's LSM before adding it to the Software List (http://freedos.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freedos-lsm.cgi?q=fa=base/edit-eric.lsm) ** I try not to edit other people's LSMs before adding them to the database, but since this involves a forked program, I didn't want to leave the LSM unchanged as it would confuse people. I haven't removed Joe's FreeDOS EDIT from the Software List, but I am happy to do so if people tell me that Eric's FreeDOS EDIT is preferable. I feel strongly that we should avoid duplication on the Software List, so I'd like to hear back from the group soon as to which EDIT should remain on the list. If there aren't any follow-ups to this thread, I'll assume that people don't care, and I'll promote the EDIT that's actually got an active maintainer to be the new FreeDOS EDIT. -jh -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit
I think I found a bug in FreeDOS edit, but I would like to see if anyone else noticed this: When you try to save a text file on a floppy disk that is write protected, it doesn't give any error message. The only way I even knew that the disk was WP was that the drive made a funny sound when I tried to save the file. Anyone else notice this? --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user