EDIT and QBASIC
Peter Moylan
>M> I cursed the day they replaced it with EDIT because EDIT
>M> required QBASIC.EXE, [...]
>
>That is no longer the case. The EDIT that ships with Windows NT 2000 is not a
>shim for QBASIC.
And it's only 413 bytes in size. Now there's something that will
fit on a floppy.
Not only that, but if you copy EDIT.COM from Windows to an OS/2
machine, it will run in a DOS shell under OS/2. As far
as I can tell, the only thing that's different is the name of
the company in the copyright notice.
(New discovery while I was testing this. If you type "win" in
a DOS prompt, it locks up the entire system. I have finally
proved to myself the value of having CADH installed. In case
anyone else gets trapped by this, the recovery procedure
(assuming you have CADH and GO installed) turns out to be:
- type Ctrl/Alt/Del to wake up CADH
- use GO to kill the second instance of PMSHELL.EXE
Further discovery: the "command prompts" submenu of XCenter does
not include WinOS2. Accidental omission, or policy decision?)
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Peter Moylan Peter....@newcastle.edu.au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au (OS/2 and eCS information and software)