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Hi,

On Apr 4, 3:12=A0am, Ster DOT  DOT  DOT  AT aol DOT com wrote:
>
> that all sounds complicated.

What does?

> I just wished there were updates to these old editors,

Which old editors? You mean Pliable (which I've never heard of) or
something else mentioned here?

> so I could use them with larger files

Aurora (now freeware) claims to support 1 GB file sizes. CWS claims
his EDT-like ED can handle 500 MB files with ease. And GNU Emacs
supports 256 MB buffers now (on 32-bit platforms, at least). I'm sure
other editors (TDE, VIM, FTE) probably work with pretty big files too.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~knassen/aurora.html
http://clio.rice.edu/EDstuff/EDDOS157.exe

> , Umlaute, easily switch German-US-Keyboard, avoid ascii =A026
> at file-end,...

Are we talking pure DOS here? Switching the keyboard is handled by
KEYB (Ctrl-Alt-F1 or -F2, IIRC), and FreeDOS has three different
variants (XKEYB, KEYB, mKEYB) although KEYB is the best (with XKEYB
being deprecated and mKEYB only for minimal support). The umlaut /
diaresis is usually dependent upon your codepage (850 found in FD's
EGA.CPX although others support it to) and probably generated by AltGr
+ whatever (I don't grok German).

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/p=
kgs/keybx.zip
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/p=
kgs/keybs.zip

BTW, not all editors worry about Ctrl-Z, and at least TDE has a config
option to not insert it automatically, so other editors may have
similar.

P.S. Depending upon who you want to send files to, you may prefer true
ISO-8859-1 (cp819) or UTF-8 for German instead of cp850. You'll have
to get Kosta Kostis' ISOLATIN.CPI for cp819. But at least Mined will
let you edit ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 German text files in pure DOS even if
your terminal only supports ISO-8859-1. (Actually, Blocek is graphical
and requires a mouse, but it supports UTF-8 with its own fonts.) Of
course, GNU Emacs w/ LEIM can do all of that too (without needing
special fonts or graphics). It just depends on what you prefer.

Does any of this help?

http://www.kostis.net/freeware/isocp101.zip
http://www.towo.net/mined/
http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/

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