On 2016-07-08 3:45 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 8 July 2016 at 20:42, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote:
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.
Oh my, yes. I was quite the Edlin virtuoso in the late '80s, but then,
there really wasn't much to master.
"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.
The DOS editor I really like was originally call PE and an enhanced
version "E" was shipped with later version of PC-DOS, there are also
some clones of the editor floating around as well. I still use this
editor regularly because of its very flexible ways of selecting and
manipulating text.
Paul.
