> But there are many good (and free) > text editors available for DOS that can edit large text.
True enough. and people have had time enough (it's 2022) to select one of them that suits their needs. and there are multiple (of varying taste and quality) in FreeDOS and elsewhere. but none of them comes as close in behaviour (like shortcuts, menu structure etc.) to MS Edit as the one that FreeDOS choses to call 'EDIT'. > "edit.exe" is a simple and limited tool, but good enough for the intended use > case. actually edit.exe was not the intended use case. EDIT was just the first (and only ?) application using the DFLAT library. DFLAT was decribed and implemented as multiple articles in Dr.Dobbs magazine, demonstrating and implementing windows(tm) programming techniques. so the intended use case was 'demonstrate windows programming technique'. never to be a useful editor. this happened more or less by chance. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
