I had actually forgotten about setedit (and have probably forgotten how to
use it as well). Is there a reason the "edit" category is not included in
the fdnpkg install program or the "all_cd" iso? I don't mind relearning
it. I downloaded it, but it won't start and I apparently didn't get all of
the program. Am I using the wrong repo?
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Dosgeek!
>
> > This is my number one request for FreeDOS 1.2/2/0.
> >
> > Can we PLEASE increase the FreeDOS edit capacity to at least match the
> > capacity MS-DOS edit? I get so aggravated trying to open included .txt
> files
> > with various DOS programs only to find that the file exceeds the
> capacity of
> > FreeDOS edit.
>
> But what IS the maximum file size in MS DOS EDIT?
>
> I just tried with FreeDOS EDIT while I had 626 kB
> DOS memory free: The limit per file seems to be
> exactly 64000 bytes, but you can open several of
> those as long as you have enough memory. Of course
> there are many other editors in our distro which
> you can use as alternative editors at any time:
>
> http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=edit
>
> For example SETEDIT and TDE let you edit files which
> are several megabytes big and Blocek and Mined even
> support Unicode! Also, SETEDIT and TDE look similar
> enough to MS DOS EDIT, so you can enjoy them all :-)
>
> (Rugxulo: Please mirror blocek 1.4b, small fix :-))
>
> So why so many editors? FreeDOS EDIT works on 8086,
> if you can find any of those in your museum. It is
> also a demo use for a nice user interface toolkit,
> which you could also use to program other tools. It
> has a calendar and an ASCII table. Just a nice small
> multi-file text editor as default FreeDOS editor :-)
>
> With TDE, SETEDIT or the Unicode editors, you get a
> lot more power. They work on any 386 or newer PC, in
> the Unicode case any 386 with VGA or better graphics.
>
> Cheers, Eric
>
>
>
>
>
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