MS-DOS Editor
MS-DOS Editor, shortly EDIT, is a page- oriented text editor from Microsoft that the line-oriented Edlin from MS- DOS 5.0 replaced and is included with the graphical Notepad even in recent versions of Windows, although he is no longer under development since 1995. The editor is not running as a 16- bit application on the 64 -bit versions of Windows.
History
The roots go back to the editor to GW- BASIC, a BASIC interpreter, who was part of the operating system to MS -DOS 4.01. For the subsequent Basic Compiler Quick Basic, the editor with a mouse and menu-driven interface has been reprogrammed. For the operating system DOS QuickBasic has been slimmed down and delivered as QBasic. The MS- DOS Editor, in turn, is based on QBasic. By using MS -DOS 5.0 to 6:22 EDIT.COM is called, which in turn starts QBasic with the command line option " / EDITOR", QBasic can be used as an editor for example, initialization and batch files ..
On Microsoft Windows NT 3.5, NT 3.51 and NT 4.0, the editor than version 1.0 was as standalone executable DOS application without QBasic included with Windows by the editor functions of QBasic have been extracted. The version 2.0.26 of the editor is part of MS -DOS version 7.0 as an integral part of Windows 95 and Me Here QBasic is only an option on the installation media, while the DOS Editor is part of the scope of the installation. It is installed by default on Windows 2000 and on all 32bit Windows NT - based systems as a DOS application.
Functions
The editor has, how many DOS applications that were developed in the early days of Windows, a semi- graphical windows like interface that uses the block diagram of the DOS operating systems and is therefore started under the DOS prompt in full display. On Windows, the representation is a " DOS window " is possible. Menu and scroll bars correspond to operate today's Windows programs. Mouse use is, if a compatible mouse driver is installed as an option. The editor may, depending on the conventional memory, edit large files up to 300 KB.
The editor allows the creation and editing of text files, so without page breaks or functions for formatting text. It contains the important basic functions of a simple word processing including tab ( the distances by inserting spaces formats ), search / replace and internal clipboard with cut / copy and paste. The use of the Windows clipboard is possible via the " DOS box " or the DOS emulator and also converts the special characters between DOS and Windows character sets correctly. Texts created under Windows but are represented by using the DOS character set without conversion (and vice versa). Printer can be addressed via COM and LPT ports in text mode. An internal data interface handles communication with the optionally usable program QBasic and integrates its control options in the text editor menu.
The colors of the text-based interface can be freely selected. In the " DOS box " under Windows also row and column number and the font size can be freely defined. In the latest version 2.0, the user can also open up to nine files at a time and display two files with horizontal pitch among them.