MS-DOS editor
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| developer | Microsoft |
| Publishing year | June 1991 |
| Current version | 2.0.026 (1995) |
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MS-DOS As a 16-bit DOS application also an integral part of Microsoft Windows (9x and NT) |
| category | Text editor |
| License | proprietary ( EULA ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
The MS-DOS Editor , or EDIT for short, is a screen-oriented text editor from Microsoft . The program introduced in 1991 with MS-DOS 5.0 complemented the line-oriented editor EDLIN .
EDIT has not been further developed since 1995, but remains a 16-bit DOS application in 32-bit Windows NT versions.
history
In 1986 version 2 of the basic compiler QuickBASIC was supplied with an integrated development environment (IDE) with a mouse and menu-controlled surface, which was further developed up to version 4.5 in 1988. QuickBasic 4.5 was slimmed down for the DOS operating system and supplied as QBasic . The MS-DOS editor in turn is based on the QBasic IDE. By calling EDIT.COMup QBasic under MS-DOS 5.0 to 6.22 , which in turn /EDITORstarts QBasic with the command line option, the QBasic IDE can be used as an editor for, for example, initialization and batch processing files.
Under Microsoft Windows NT 3.5, NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 , the editor was part of the scope of delivery of Windows as version 1.0 as an independently executable DOS application without QBasic by extracting the editor functions of QBasic. Version 2.0.26 of the editor is part of MS-DOS from version 7.0 as an integral part of Windows 95 through Me . Here, QBasic is only optionally on the installation medium, while the DOS editor is part of the installation scope. Starting with Windows 2000, it is also installed as a standard DOS application on all 32-bit NT-based Windows systems.
Range of functions
The editor has a character-oriented user interface that is based on common user access guidelines. The use of the mouse is optionally possible, provided a compatible mouse driver is installed. Depending on the conventional memory , the editor can edit files up to approx. 300 KB in size.
The editor allows the creation and editing of text files, i.e. without page breaks or functions for text formatting. It contains the most important basic functions of a simple word processor including tabulator (which formats the spaces by inserting spaces), search / replace and an internal clipboard with cut / copy and paste. The Windows clipboard can be used via the “DOS box” or the DOS emulator and also converts umlauts and special characters correctly between DOS and Windows character sets. However, texts created under Windows are displayed using the DOS character set without conversion (and vice versa). Printers can be addressed in text mode via COM and LPT connections.
The colors of the text-based surface can be freely selected. In the “DOS window” under Windows, the number of rows and columns as well as the font size can be freely defined. In the last version 2.0, the user can also open up to nine files at the same time and display two files by dividing them horizontally.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Microsoft Knowledge Base: How to Remove QBasic and EDIT from MS-DOS 5.0 and Later ; Quote: EDIT.COM actually invokes QBASIC.EXE and cannot run without it.
- ↑ Microsoft Knowledge Base: Largest Document Size MS-DOS Editor Can Edit ( Memento from February 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )