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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0, impressions of a non-beta tester
Message-ID: <28576d92@ralf>
Date: 13 Jun 91 13:05:22 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
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In-Reply-To: <ONEEL.91Jun12142313@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Originator: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <ONEEL.91Jun12142313@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov>, oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) wrote:
}you.  The new basic seems to be fairly quick (12mhz 286).  The new
}editor is nice compared to edlin.  In both the editor as well as the
}new basic (they're the same apparently) if you don't like microsoft's

Yep.  EDIT.COM is a 413-byte program which merely invokes QBASIC with a
switch to turn off the non-editor functions.  IMHO, if I'm going to load
a quarter-meg editor, it had better have unlimited file sizes, a full
extension language, etc....  I second the opinion of sticking with Qedit
for the little stuff (and I'll keep using Epsilon for the big jobs).

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