11 Apr
2011
11 Apr
'11
5:59 p.m.
On 12 April 2011 01:41, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Some stuff I wrote off the top of my head is, on further checking, inaccurate.
The EDIT command came in in MS-DOS 5.0 and persisted
into MS-DOS 6,
6.2, 6.21 and 6.22.
... and 7.0 (Win95) and 7.1 (Win98/ME) and some versions of NT.
EDIT.EXE is a stub which calls QBASIC.EXE in a special
mode.
Only true in the versions which came as part of standalone MS-DOS, not
after DOS 7.
In EDIT.EXE mode, all the BASIC handling is hidden, so
it appears to
be just a plain-text editor. Multi-file, windowing or tiled display,
CUA compliant, mouse or keyboard driven, full context-sensitive help,
etc.
It's only multi-file capable in the MS-DOS 7 version.
Something I didn't know, though, is that it can edit files of up to
65K lines - about 5MB - *way* bigger than the original Windows 9x
Notepad's 64K.
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