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From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: History mechanism in MS-DOS?
Message-ID: <802@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 19:52:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  8 19:52:37 1986
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This subject seems to recur every couple of months.  DOSEDIT was available at
one time as a public domain (I think) program, and I imagine that it still
is.  It was written by an IBM employee whose name is very well-known but which
I cannot remember at the moment.  In any case, DOSEDIT was enhanced and then
offered by IBM as one of several programs on a Utilities diskette for around
$20 (whole diskette price, of course) under the name of RETRIEVE.  I used it
and another one or two of the utilities for a while before I discovered CED.
CED was written by someone who was obviously a fan of RETRIEVE.  He expanded
its functionality by adding stacked commands, longer aliases (now called
"synonyms"), etc.  Very nice; I still use it.  I have heard that the nameless
IBMer has once again enhanced RETRIEVE and that it has leapfrogged CED in
functionality.  I haven't found it yet, so I don't know.  I suppose I will
just follow the leapfrogging, while leaning a little closer to the DOSEDIT/
RETRIEVE product evolution.

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