"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2183.1335491333.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com...
> On 4/27/12, H. S. Teoh <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
>> It's ironic how useless Notepad is compared to an ancient DOS program
>> from the dinosaur age.
>
> If you run "edit" in command prompt or the run dialog (well, assuming
> you had a win32 box somewhere), you'd actually get a pretty decent
> dos-based editor that is still better than Notepad. It has split
> windows, a tab stop setting, and even a whole bunch of color settings.
> :P

Heh, I remember that :)

Holy crap, even in XP, they updated it to use the Windows standard key 
combos for cut/copy/paste. I had no idea, all this time. Back in DOS, it 
used that old "Shift-Ins" stuff.


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