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Pre-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 edito
by Jaruzel 6y ago
Pre-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 :(