Hi,

On 25 Aug 2022, at 11:07, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote:

> Would it be possible to have edit.exe for 64k less files... edit32.exe for 
> bigger files... and edit.bat that would check fif the requested file to edit 
> is bigger than 64k and then call edit32 on the file, else edit.exe on the 
> file?

There is no reason why edit.com should not be able to edit large files. 
Addressing 640KB of RAM is possible on any 8086 PC, and with the help of 
EMS/XMS addressing larger memory is possible.

>From my point of view, there is no need to have a 32bit program to edit files 
>> 64kb.

Greetings

Carsten


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