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  • Re: Dateline: Vegas! (dos

    From MIKE POWELL@21:4/134 to NIGHTFOX on Thu Feb 5 08:22:00 2026
    Do you guys know of a replacement for the original MS-DOS 6.22 edit.com editor? Something that would run in DOS-Box and not native x64 Windows. Thank you guys.

    Are you looking for an exact replacement that has the same features and behav the same way, or just an alternative text editor? If you want an alternative editor, SemWare's QEdit was around in the DOS days and there was a DOS versio of that, so that's an option. I used to use it, and I think it's pretty good

    I would second this suggestion.

    QEdit is awesome. Still use it daily.

    If he wants a more exact replacement, IIRC freedos has an edit clone.

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  • From MIKE POWELL@21:4/134 to MORTAR M. on Fri Feb 6 08:33:00 2026
    I'm looking for a text editor that would open .txt files in DOS and let me work with the content and then save it in the legacy "DOSey" format.

    "DOSey format"? No such thing. A .TXT file is a .TXT file.

    That is what I thought, too. However, over the years, a couple of things
    have proven otherwise:

    (1) I could be mis-remembering this, but I would swear that sometimes TXT
    files edited in Windows Notepad didn't show up right in DOS editors later.
    (2) Editing a txt file in linux, saving it, and then opening it in DOS --
    or vise-versa. The EOL formats are different.

    For #2 I learned that the first time I tried linux. I was using a
    Slackware variant called, IIRC, ZIPslack that allowed you to install a
    linux environment on a DOS machine. I would try editing the config files
    in QEdit and the linux utilities did *not* like that! ;)

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