This message was edited by chintu31 at 2006-2-4 23:28:44

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I am trying to build a DOS Editor. How can I allocate memory the same way as the normal DOS Editor (Edit) uses.

This message was edited by Gregry2 at 2006-2-5 4:4:33

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: This message was edited by chintu31 at 2006-2-4 23:28:44

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: I am trying to build a DOS Editor. How can I allocate memory the same way as the normal DOS Editor (Edit) uses.
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Erg, such a vaque question, too general.

two types of allocation
char* a = new char[60];//allocates a 60 bytes
string* b = new string;//allocates a string object...I think
//I dont program in C++

//in C++, use the keyword ``delete''

delete b;//for single objects

//append `[]' to delete to delete the array
delete[] a;

[/code]

thats just basic stuff, its the only thing I can post and know its right :)
{2}rIng

: I am trying to build a DOS Editor. How can I allocate memory the same way as the normal DOS Editor (Edit) uses.
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editors that can edit huge files do not load the file into memory all at one time.

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Notepad loads the whole file into memmory.
Wordpad doesn't.

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Notepad limits the size of the file, Wordpad doesn't.

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So what, when you reach a certain point logically in a file which is the end of that which is loaded, it loads the rest?
{2}rIng

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And deallocates the what's isn't needed.
Simple buffering technices. But it is still easier to just load the whole file.

This message was edited by stober at 2006-2-5 7:40:16

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yes, its certainly easier, but what happens if the file size is several gigs or terabytes? It won't all fit in memory at once, so you have to work with small chunks. I suspect Wordpad uses memory mapped files and let the os do all the difficult work of synchonizing the file with what is in memory.



But -- neither Notepad nor Wordpad are MS-DOS editors, as indicated in the original post. They are MS-Windows editors. So if you are writing an MS-DOS editor then the program is limited to 640K (minus memory for the operating system and TSRs).

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: But -- neither Notepad nor Wordpad are MS-DOS editors, as indicated in the original post. They are MS-Windows editors. So if you are writing an MS-DOS editor then the program is limited to 640K (minus memory for the operating system and TSRs).
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If you open a file bigger than 65K in notepad it says it can't open the file and suggest to open it in wordpad.

It isn't much harder making a msdos editor than a windows one.

This message was edited by Gregry2 at 2006-2-6 1:26:1

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So, say the user gets to a certain point in the file beyond 64K in an MSDOS editor. Is this actually simply when the cursor passes a certain point? Then the memory in use is exchanged for the next 64K bytes of the file after the last, correct? Wouldn't that cause like a delay in the program and confuse the user?

I haven't made an editor before, but I want to make a program like a text file preprocessor, so please explain on this.

thanx
{2}rIng

Hi! Thanks for your valuable input.

But, here we are talking about the MS-DOS editor (Edit command in DOS). I have designed the program already but getting stuck in this area only. I am trying to find out how can I allocate memory so that I can create a file, read, write in the same fashion as the normal DOS editor do.

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: Hi! Thanks for your valuable input.
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: But, here we are talking about the MS-DOS editor (Edit command in DOS). I have designed the program already but getting stuck in this area only. I am trying to find out how can I allocate memory so that I can create a file, read, write in the same fashion as the normal DOS editor do.
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Use <fstream> to work with files.

The editing is rather hard, becouse it's a lot of things that needs to be implemented. I've made one in qbasic some years ago, and I actually used it as my C++ programming IDE then. It was pretty much like the qbasic editor (very like EDIT exept you could compile with F5 and some other things)
I can post the code if you want...