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Pierre Lawrence · 07-13-2022, 04:20 AM

Comments on posts by rcentros, gmw, and j.p.s.:

I used a version of Vedit (Vedit Jr.) during the DOS era. It was loadable from a 5 ¼” floppy having a capacity of at most a few hundred kilobytes, was easy to use, and displayed the file you were either creating or editing free of the toolbar clutter that plagues Word, for example.

The company apparently is still around, and their current product is an industrial strength editor that purportedly can edit any file on the planet (the 64-bit version a mind-boggling file size of 100GB). Other prodigious feats which it is claimed to be capable of include simultaneously performing search and replace on all files in a given directory and its subdirectories (as many as a thousand files, according to the user's manual) and a similar number of undo, redo operations that can be restored to their original locations or positioned anywhere in the file.

In response to j.p.s.' post, 4DOS was an enhancement of Microsoft's command line interface (“the C: prompt”), which continues to be bundled with Windows, and for many Windows updates allowed you to run DOS programs (not sure if this is true of the more recent updates). The command prompt continues to be useful for other tasks, however. I recently used it to remove Microsoft Edge from my laptop – which Uninstall will not allow you to do.

Thanks to rcentros for the link on Geoworks – a great read!

07-13-2022, 04:20 AM	#19
Pierre Lawrence Connoisseur Posts: 55 Karma: 2600000 Join Date: Sep 2018 Location: New Jersey Device: kindle, nook	Comments on posts by rcentros, gmw, and j.p.s.: I used a version of Vedit (Vedit Jr.) during the DOS era. It was loadable from a 5 ¼” floppy having a capacity of at most a few hundred kilobytes, was easy to use, and displayed the file you were either creating or editing free of the toolbar clutter that plagues Word, for example. The company apparently is still around, and their current product is an industrial strength editor that purportedly can edit any file on the planet (the 64-bit version a mind-boggling file size of 100GB). Other prodigious feats which it is claimed to be capable of include simultaneously performing search and replace on all files in a given directory and its subdirectories (as many as a thousand files, according to the user's manual) and a similar number of undo, redo operations that can be restored to their original locations or positioned anywhere in the file. In response to j.p.s.' post, 4DOS was an enhancement of Microsoft's command line interface (“the C: prompt”), which continues to be bundled with Windows, and for many Windows updates allowed you to run DOS programs (not sure if this is true of the more recent updates). The command prompt continues to be useful for other tasks, however. I recently used it to remove Microsoft Edge from my laptop – which Uninstall will not allow you to do. Thanks to rcentros for the link on Geoworks – a great read!