Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/08:50:15
On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
> A problem common to edit.exe and dosbook.exe is
> they don't write to bios but use direct screen writess.
> I don't know if those programs have the option available to
> write to bios the same way msdos normally does when qbasic; edit,
> and help.exe and dosshell.exe aren't being used but
> making that ability for opendos really would offer speech synthesizer
> users
> some alternatives. Those might be writes to dos services instead,
> but it's for sure they're not direct with programs like edlin.exe for
> instance.
> I don't use m$dos edit.exe in favor of edlin.exe for
> that reason when I want to do quick edits.
> The opendos edit.exe I hope is more than a screen-oriented editor,
> its size is large enough to be a wordprocessor.
The opendos edit.exe is roughly equivalent in every way to DOS 6.22
EDIT. I don't notice anything really BIG that is different (feature
wise). It doesn't however use SHIFT-ARROW, etc for copy/paste
operations which is a bummer. Oh, well, I can delete it anyways cause
I use BOXER for most editing in DOS.
Again, I think that DOS EDIT and probably the OpenDos one too, has a
command line switch that would probably make your speech software
work. I can't look right now though, because I cant get DOSemu to
come up for some reason.
Good luck.
TTYL
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