There is a simple little editor called "Pico" that comes with
the Pine e-mail client. If you go to the PC-Pine pages at
www.washington.edu/pine/pc-pine/ you can download one
of two DOS versions. The Pico editor can be extracted
and run by itself. Pico has a word wrap mode.
There are, of course, plenty of other competent editors
that can be downloaded (PC-Write, Qedit (a favorite of mine),
Galaxy, and so on) from the Simtel archives. I have these
and can e-mail them to you off-line as attachments if you
wish.
Another one that's available, and which has *way* more
power than DOS edit.com is the PC version of "vi" (an editor
from Unix). It takes some getting used to, since it was
written as a shell for the "ex" editor and thus has two modes,
command mode and insert mode, but once you "get it" vi
kicks butt.
I think you'd be happiest with Qedit, also called the
Semware Editor.
~~ Garry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Taylor Moore Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:02 PM
Subject: [SURVPC] Can MS edit.com word wrap?
> I read somewhere that MS edit.com won't word wrap with Novell DOS.
>
> I can't get it to word wrap with any version of DOS! :-(
>
> Failing a solution to this, could anyone recommend the closest text
> editor to it which does?
>
> My main concern is to be able to manipulate text in the familiar ways
> edit.com supports, ideally with those DOS familiar drop down menus.
> I don't want an idiosyncratic text editor which uses unfamiliar keys
> not used by run of the mill DOS and Windows editors and W/Ps.
>
> This is for the twin 720Kb floppy 8088, so needs to be small.
>
> Thanks in advance, Neil Taylor
>
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