8 Jul
2016
8 Jul
'16
11:45 a.m.
On 8 July 2016 at 20:42, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Oh my, yes. I was quite the Edlin virtuoso in the late '80s, but then,
there really wasn't much to master.
There are or
were lots of odd editors for the PC. IBM E was one --
apparently it's quite like some mainframe tool. Came with PC-DOS and
was... strange.
Originally, PC-DOS had only EDLIN, which, amazingly, was *less* powerful
than CP/M ED. "E" in PC DOS didn't come about until
version 6.3 or so. By then, MS
had their EDIT editor which was intimately tied into QuickBASIC.
Ah yes, true. It got separated out in the NT era.
Before that, when I typed "E" on my old PC
systems, I get the Semware
editor--a very nice tool. I purchased it, but rarely used it.
Another good DOS editor was VEDIT, which, IIRC, was also offered for the
IBM Displaywriter.
Never saw them!
I still don't like *nix vi to this very day.
Oh good, it's not just me. :-)
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