You can use 2.88MB floppy disk! You can compress it into a CAB file, create a virtual disk in the boot disk, and unzip them into the virtual disk! At 2022-12-07 08:10:56, "Ralf Quint" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 12/6/2022 2:46 PM, Harald Arnesen wrote: >> Jerome Shidel [06/12/2022 23.38]: >> >>>>> 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. >> >> If we want to be compatible with MS-DOS, EDLIN is the only >> alternative. As is ed the only standard Unix editor. > >We are aiming to be MS-DOS 6.0 compatible, and that had MSEDIT as it's >default editor. But as mentioned, this is too large, so I think that E3 >is an absolute legitimate option to include on the boot disk... > > >Ralf > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Freedos-devel mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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