> FDNPKG keeps all editors inside its "util" repository. Currently I see
there are 6 editors there, which seem a bit too little to create a
separate category.
Mateusz, I am a fan of your FNDPKG system and I use it in Real FreeDOS
Mode. I have customized the all_cd to work perfectly on my various
computers (Compaq Armada 1700 & 1750 laptops, HP Elite 8000, Compaq D510,
HP DC5700), so I must disagree. While six (or seven if you included
setedit) does not constitute a large repository, if one desires (or needs)
to learn two or three of these editors to fit one's needs then the edit
repo is, IMHO justified (not to mention that there would be less confusion
to the end-user; I can think of several util packages that should be in the
base repo).
On the other hand if there were one editor such as your own Saucy (or FD
edit) that were capable of opening a text file of the entire Bible without
hanging (which MS-DOS edit can do) then the edit category might not be
necessary as a separate repo.
> 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 :-)
> But what IS the maximum file size in MS DOS EDIT?
I have tested it on the largest text file which I have and that is my
current project: a translation of the bible which is 4.3mb and it works
fine and doesn't hang. On the FreeDOS web page, the description of FreeDOS
edit is: "FreeDOS improved clone of MS-DOS Edit" and sadly, this is simply
not true. While it is the "go to editor" for batch files and FDCONFIG, I
could not recommend it as a "drop-in" replacement for MS-DOS EDIT.
I LOVE FreeDOS and wish it to succeed into the next decade at least; and
this is my point, I use FreeDOS in real mode, as if it were an alternate
operating system. I am an actual (registered) user of the DOS programs that
were the ultimate programs of the DOS age: Lotus 123, dBase & WordPerfect.
Besides these, I also use on a daily basis Online Bible, Alpha Four and
Mpxplay. There is only one program that I own that currently does not work
in FreeDOS (a tsr dictionary - but I use another which is almost as good).
I don't know what the plan is going forward. I suppose that FreeDOS is
"good enough" as it is, but it would be way cool if it could be better -
better than the illegal but much downloaded MS-DOS 7.10.
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:
> On 13/03/2015 17:59, Don Flowers wrote:
> > Is there a reason the "edit" category is not
> > included in the fdnpkg install program or the "all_cd" iso?
>
> Actually FreeDOS "categories" do not translate directly into FDNPKG
> repositories.
>
> FDNPKG keeps all editors inside its "util" repository. Currently I see
> there are 6 editors there, which seem a bit too little to create a
> separate category:
>
> blocek 1.4 - A graphical text editor with unicode and pictures formats
> support
> elvis 2.2 - a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor. Supports nearly
> all vi/ex commands
> fed 2.24 - A folding text editor with color syntax highlighting and more
> mbedit 8.64 - mbedit is a full screen text editor with macro option,
> online calculator, command history buffer, hex editor a
> msedit 0.11 - Mateusz' Saucy Editor
> pico 3.96 - simple text editor in the style of the Pine Composer
> tde 5.1v - TDE is a simple, public domain, multi-file/multi-window
> binary and text file editor written for IBM PCs and close
>
> Setedit is not present there (package contributions welcome!)
>
> cheers,
> Mateusz
>
>
>
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