11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:19 p.m.
Doug Jackson wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
All true, but EDLIN was way dumb. Reliable, but dumb.
When I went to
client sites, I always took a few diskettes -- and would load some
public domain utilities and some batch files to the client machines.
Among these diskettes was a copy of PC vi, and an editor called
"BlackBeard" which was very cool. Among other characteristics, it would
format a block of plain text, by breaking at word boundaries, and leave
a plain ASCII text file. Very nice. I just looked around, and found a
page of software downloads for editors:
http://www.eunet.bg/simtel.net/msdos/editor-pre.html
PC XEDIT is there, which was mentioned lately. Gosh, it's like an
ecumenical convention over there! <Grin>
Warren
On 9 Jun 2009 at 13:49, John Floren wrote:
No - I don't but I am reminded of my youth.
Years ago I used to repair PC's (Back when you had to type stuff to do
things, and when the 8087 was just awesome...) My editor of choice
was the MSDOS EDLIN tool. Without fail, every client who watched me
working asked why I didn't use QEDIT34 or ExtraED98 or
"InsertAwesomeEditorNameHere", to which I would always reply - 'you
may have "InsertAwesomeEditorNameHere", but I can never guarantee the
next client will have it, so I got good at using the standard editor!
That saved me so much time! ed /is/ the standard editor
Just curious, does anyone here use (as their editor) Epsilon?
--Chuck