difference between Quick compilers - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Apr 2011

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  Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:32:15 -0500
 From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
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 If you weren't using MS-DOS 5.0 to 6.22, then you probably weren't
 using EDIT.COM chaining to QBASIC in single-file-edit-mode.  If you
 were using Win95 or newer, you were probably running EDIT.EXE. --
I think you'll find that both the old QBASIC-dependent V1.1 and the
stand-alone V2.0.x are .COM files.

FWIW the new version works fine in the old 'real' DOS; I had to 'upgrade'
EDIT.COM & .HLP in several remote-access client systems running DOS6.22
because the old V1.1 version locked up when run remotely via PCAnywhere (the
only program(s) that I ever ran across that *didn't* work properly over
PCAnywhere, BTW).

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