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EDLIN has been removed for quite some time, its successor, EDIT.COM, has not survived the let’s-get-rid-of-efficient-software Windows XP era either.
by rhabarba 6y ago
EDLIN has been removed for quite some time, its successor, EDIT.COM, has not survived the let’s-get-rid-of-efficient-software Windows XP era either.
- tartoran 6y agoI still casually use copy con in windows. Sometimes i forget which is the save shortcut. I think ctrl-z, right? I also fondly remember edit.com, too bad it didnt survive..
- stevekemp 6y agoThat's a shame, I had a happy few minutes remembering assembling binaries via debug.com which was the other way of creating files back then.
- ChrisSD 6y agoI think EDIT.COM was 16-bit so couldn't survive the 64-bit transition.
- dan-robertson 6y agoI definitely remember windows having some built in terminal editor during Windows XP. Maybe EDIT was removed after then.
- rhabarba 6y agoEDIT was dropped with 64-bit.
- Jaruzel 6y agoPre-windows 95, EDIT.COM was actually QBASIC.EXE running with the command line switch /EDIT. Really annoying, as it meant that if you wanted a native TUI editor on an MS-DOS book disk, you had to shoe-horn the larger QBASIC.EXE on to it somehow just to be able to edit config files.
- m0xte 6y agoThis was so annoying that I built a stand-alone clone of edit using VB for MSDOS. Unfortunately after compiling it was larger than QBASIC :(
- userbinator 6y agoI believe EDIT.COM is still there in all 32-bit versions of Windows, but since it's a 16-bit application, none of the 64-bit versions have it. More unusually, Win9x doesn't have EDLIN, but it seems the 32-bit versions of NT-based Windows do.