Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 6:01 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 5:48 PM wrote: > > > > If any of you remember Qedit, or its big brother TSE (the Semware Editor), > > you may be interested to know that TSE if released as freeware. > > > > Note that, this is the version from 1997,

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Ralf Quint
On 10/21/2022 2:14 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: I'm not a normal windows user obviously, but personally, I love when windows apps have text interfaces, Well, that is a rather personal preference. I am using for years now a Windows freeware editor called PSPad. That handles all the text files in

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Travis Siegel
I'm not a normal windows user obviously, but personally, I love when windows apps have text interfaces, it means I don't have to worry about them not working with my screen reader.  I deliberately didn't download the windows version, because I just figured it'd be another one of those fancy

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Jim Hall
> On 10/20/2022 9:17 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > I recall Qedit, and used it back in the day, though it was never my > > primary editor. > > > > It got renamed from Qedit to TSE due to a trademark issue. Qedit author > > Sammy > > Mitchell was unaware there was another editor called WEDIT, provided

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Ralf Quint
On 10/20/2022 9:17 PM, dmccunney wrote: I recall Qedit, and used it back in the day, though it was never my primary editor. It got renamed from Qedit to TSE due to a trademark issue. Qedit author Sammy Mitchell was unaware there was another editor called WEDIT, provided by Hewlett-Packard for

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Ben Collver
I used Qedit (Q.EXE) as my primary editor on my first PC.  It has the same Wordstar key bindings that i grew accustomed to using Borland's Turbo-Basic and Turbo-Pascal in school.  It continued to be my editor of choice until i started using Unix.  So i am pleased that TSE Pro 2.5 has been

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Ralf Quint
On 10/21/2022 5:20 AM, Joseph Norton wrote: Hi: Basically, he mentioned that the reason he released it as freeware was that he hadn’t made too much in profits for quite a while. No too surprised. The market for DOS bases software is all but dead 30 years after the EOL of MS-DOS. And

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Joseph Norton
for Windows From: dmccunneySent: Friday, October 21, 2022 12:19 AMTo: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware I recall Qedit, and used it back in the day, though it was never myprimary editor. It got renamed from Qedit to TSE

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-20 Thread dmccunney
I recall Qedit, and used it back in the day, though it was never my primary editor. It got renamed from Qedit to TSE due to a trademark issue. Qedit author Sammy Mitchell was unaware there was another editor called WEDIT, provided by Hewlett-Packard for their midrange multi-user systems line.

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-20 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi guys wow, I have fond memories of qedit, but was doing all my editing with wordperfect by the time this came along. Snagged a copy to try, but wonder how well it works from a speech standpoint? The later regular MS DOS edit program was sort of icky. Kare On Thu, 20 Oct 2022, Travis

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-20 Thread Travis Siegel
I actually registered this program when it was still shareware. qedit version 3.0C was the last version of qedit, then they went to TSE.  When I registered, I asked if 3.0c was still possible to register, because I preferred that version.  They told me no, and gave my registration for tse

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-20 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 5:48 PM wrote: > > If any of you remember Qedit, or its big brother TSE (the Semware Editor), > you may be interested to know that TSE if released as freeware. > > You can download a copy at www.semware.com. > > Though the Windows version is prominently displayed, you’ll