Hi Ralph, > On Dec 6, 2022, at 2:43 PM, Ralf Quint <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/6/2022 1:39 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> But I completely agree it would be nice to include some sort of text editor. >> Like MEM and MORE, it can be difficult to get along without having them on a >> boot diskette. But, at 65.9kb for EDIT.EXE + 29.4kb for EDIT.HLP, there is >> not enough room on the 720kb diskette set to include edit. Perhaps the >> 16-bit version of E3 at only 4kb could be included. Or possible, a different >> very light-weight editor. > > So how much space DO you have?
As I said in the previous message, there is 63kb free on the 720kb. > I don't think that EDIT (specially including the help) is necessary, but > there are (should be) full screen editors that would be suffice for editing > basic configuration files when setting up a system. There is no need for > graphic UI, multi file, multi-MB-sized files and such fluff. But quickly AND > EASILY edit those rather small (less than a dozen KB) text files. And that > should be possible to accomplish with an editor of 20KB or less... > > > Ralf I’m really thinking about sticking the 16-bit version of E3 ( https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/editor/e3 <https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/editor/e3> ) on the Floppy Edition boot media. Unless there “better” similarly sized editor. E3 is only 4kb, GPLv2 and we already have a package for it. When it starts up, it displays all the keyboard commands. After having a quick look at the Editor packages we already have at https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/editor <https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/editor> , all except E3 are larger than FreeDOS Edit. So, unless there is overwhelming support for a different one and we make up a package for it, I’ll probably just stick E3 on there. Jerome
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