On 30/01/2023, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > SAM is a window-based editor, so it uses graphics mode. To me, this > looks a lot like the window editor on the Apollo/DOMAIN system - I > managed a small Apollo/DOMAIN network in the mid 1990s. You can find a > screenshot of SAM on Wikipedia: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%28text_editor%29#/media/File:Sam_text_editor.png > > Compiling this for DOS would be an interesting exercise. Not sure if > it's possible, but give it a shot and let us know.
SAM can actually be used in both ways -- via a graphical interface, but also without it, in command-line-only mode, just like ED or EDLIN. This can be accomplished with the "-d" flag (sam -d [filenames]). I am aiming to compile only the command line backend for DOS, without the GUI. A Plan9 contributor has reportedly accomplished this (with an early version, back in the day [1]), so there is hope. Best, Mart 1: He thought this might be the Unix source that he ported: https://netlib.org/research/sam.shar _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
