I am always interested in the further securing my computer in anyway possible. This has led to many formats of my hard drive, but I learn. Anyway, as I was fumbling through "C:windowssystem32" and I came across edit.com --- I opened the program, and it came up with that screen. Well, I have searched and searched but nothing seems to lead me to the answer. What is "C:windowssystem32edit.com", and what is it used for?
P.S. If it helps, im running WinXP...
Thanx for your answers.
- S. Tranton
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Text editor.
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OLD DOS text editor. We're talking ancient.
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[blue]That's nothing... I have found EDLIN (!!!) in my WinXP! No kidding... That is a line editor I coded with in 1986. It means you edit your source file, by the line at a time - there is no cursor up down or left right - you have to give a text command, like:
+8 r 3 "Hello"
that mean at column offset 8 replace 3 symbols with text 'Hello'.
NOW, we talking ancient!
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: : OLD DOS text editor. We're talking ancient.
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: [blue]That's nothing... I have found EDLIN (!!!) in my WinXP! No kidding... That is a line editor I coded with in 1986. It means you edit your source file, by the line at a time - there is no cursor up down or left right - you have to give a text command, like:
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: +8 r 3 "Hello"
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: that mean at column offset 8 replace 3 symbols with text 'Hello'.
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: NOW, we talking ancient!
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The whole COM format is ancient
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: +8 r 3 "Hello"
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: NOW, we talking ancient!
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Holly Cow, i had totally forgotten about edlin and it was 1988 when i first started playing with PCs.
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1988? You're just some n00b! I started in '81 on an Atari400 with the 410 cassette-drive. It's sitting behind me under my bed, still working. Go Atari!!
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