Re: [Freedos-user] a note about User interfaces provided in the Semware Editor

2022-10-21 Thread joseph.norton
One more thing: The command I mentioned before (SC -B) can be issued with an executable filename right after the B, in order to specify the editor executable. The default is “E.EXE”. However, if you wanted to, I suppose you could copy E.EXE to something like WS.EXE, then, to “burn” in the

[Freedos-user] a note about User interfaces provided in the Semware Editor

2022-10-21 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi listers: Just a quick note about the copy of the Semware Editor provided on the Semware Web site: There are 5 user interfaces that can be “burned”into the e.exe editor. By default, the editor is shipped with the default TSE interface. In the UI directory, there are several interface files that c

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Ralf Quint
On 10/21/2022 2:14 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: I'm not a normal windows user obviously, but personally, I love when windows apps have text interfaces, Well, that is a rather personal preference. I am using for years now a Windows freeware editor called PSPad. That handles all the text files in

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Travis Siegel
I'm not a normal windows user obviously, but personally, I love when windows apps have text interfaces, it means I don't have to worry about them not working with my screen reader.  I deliberately didn't download the windows version, because I just figured it'd be another one of those fancy edi

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Jim Hall
> On 10/20/2022 9:17 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > I recall Qedit, and used it back in the day, though it was never my > > primary editor. > > > > It got renamed from Qedit to TSE due to a trademark issue. Qedit author > > Sammy > > Mitchell was unaware there was another editor called WEDIT, provided

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Ralf Quint
On 10/20/2022 9:17 PM, dmccunney wrote: I recall Qedit, and used it back in the day, though it was never my primary editor. It got renamed from Qedit to TSE due to a trademark issue. Qedit author Sammy Mitchell was unaware there was another editor called WEDIT, provided by Hewlett-Packard for t

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Ben Collver
I used Qedit (Q.EXE) as my primary editor on my first PC.  It has the same Wordstar key bindings that i grew accustomed to using Borland's Turbo-Basic and Turbo-Pascal in school.  It continued to be my editor of choice until i started using Unix.  So i am pleased that TSE Pro 2.5 has been releas

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Ralf Quint
On 10/21/2022 5:20 AM, Joseph Norton wrote: Hi: Basically, he mentioned that the reason he released it as freeware was that he hadn’t made too much in profits for quite a while. No too surprised. The market for DOS bases software is all but dead 30 years after the EOL of MS-DOS. And offer

Re: [Freedos-user] Semware has released TSE as Freeware

2022-10-21 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi: Basically, he mentioned that the reason he released it as freeware was that he hadn’t made too much in profits for quite a while. He still plans to work on the product (probably the Windows and Linux versions) when he can, but, is opening things up to the user community. Cheers! Sent from Mail