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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: History mechanism in MS-DOS?
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Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 22:50:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 22:50:00 1986
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Mar 25 21:50:00 1986


I don't know the original message was, but I heartily and enthusiastically
second James Trippett's recommendation of DOSEDIT.COM.

It provides a history list of 256 characters, editing on the complete with
cursor character and word motion, and aliasing capabilities. Not only does
it work under DOS, but it also works for programs such as DBASE III which
use the get-buffer DOS interrupt. DOSEDIT is the only good reason to use 
this interrupt, and is overridingly better than most of the editing routines
you might write yourself, since it remembers things across applications,
and between different executions.

I once tried to contact the guy who wrote it to see if it was truly public
domain, but whenever I called Burlington there was no response at the number
I obtained from directory assistance. The company I was working therefore did
not want to chance distributing it with our software package, but I told every
one of my students how to reach the nearest bulletin board to get it.

DOSEDIT was the single most useful program I found on the PC.

Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana. 
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