11 Apr
2011
11 Apr
'11
7:28 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
>What was
the relationship to "EDIT" in MS-DOS?
>
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I am not sure exactly what you are asking, but I
have used the
EDIT command ever since I started using DOS followed by
Windows 95, Windows 98SE and currently Windows XP.
The EDIT.COM file is run in what seems like a DOS box
under many Windows operating systems and has the same
(probably since it is actually the same identical file that I
am using - at least it says MS-DOS EDITOR V2.0.026)
commands in all systems.
The commands are limited as is the size of the input file.
But it gets the job done in the same way that KED
does (but with different commands) under RT-11.
Is this the question you are asking?
While all interesting, I was aking about the intertwining of "EDIT" and
QBASIC, to the extent that EDIT wouldn't run without QBASIC being present.
As Liam mentioned, EDIT was piggy-backed on the QBASIC code.