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COPY CON ... on DOS, bro. nuttin else comes close or if ur 2 weak, edlin.
by fuzztester 1y ago
COPY CON ...
on DOS, bro.
nuttin else comes close
or if ur 2 weak, edlin.
- EvanAnderson 1y agoI actually use "COPY CON" a fair amount. Also a decent amount of "cat > foo.sh".
- fuzztester 1y agoHa ha. Same here. Also, in shell, >file can be used to delete a file, IIRC. Not at a Unix box right now, so can't check. And: echo * is the poor man's ls command, as in, "poor man, his Unix OS is corrupted , and many commands are missing". And similarly dd is that man's cat command. :)
- fuzztester 1y agoyes, it makes sense in some situations, because if all you want to do create a small batch (.BAT) file of a few lines, and you are a careful / good typist, the COPY CON method can be a lot faster then firing up your favourite editor, even a fast one like vim, to create the file, save it and exit. and the same applies for UNIX.
- pjmlp 1y agoI did my high school typewriting test in PC skills using edlin, and never ever used it again. For coding in MS-DOS, I was using Borland IDEs, and there was the nice Q programmers editor as well.
- fuzztester 1y agoI used many text editors over the years. At one time, I used PFE, the Programmer's File Editor, which was lightweight and fast, on Windows. It had a feature of being able to open large files. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer's_File_Editor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer's_File_Editor https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/people/steveb/cpaap/pfe/ https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/people/steveb/cpaap/pfe/