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JdeBP

a month ago

In reply toEdit is now open sourceby ingve

There is no EDIT.EXE. If you have an EDIT.EXE you probably need to check for malware. (-:

It was EDIT.COM, and in the days of long ago that was just a way of invoking QBASIC with the /EDIT command-line option. At which point the project becomes one of porting an old MS-DOS full programming IDE to 64-bit Windows, just for its text editor part.

Also, much of MS-DOS was written in 16-bit 8086 assembly language; so porting MS-DOS programs is not a mere matter of compiling a high level language with a compiler that targets the new platform and processor architecture and tweaking whatever breaks.

zerra month ago

Sure about that? So in 32bit Windows where we still have EDIT, do we also have QBASIC?

nikbackmzerra month ago

Who knows?

Can't imagine anyone here using 32bit Windows and limiting themselves to 4GB of RAM.

Are there even any cheap laptops sold with that little nowadays?

JdeBPzerra month ago

Yes. In those days of long ago, I saw the .COM extension with my own eyes and ran QBASIC /EDIT directly just for kicks.

Once upon a time, this knowledge was one of those non-secret secrets that made it onto the letters pages of the computer magazines and into every "MS-DOS secrets" book out there. (-:

And yes, Windows NT 4 had the MS-DOS QBASIC.

zerr JdeBPa month ago

On well, now I have to roll out a 32bit Win7 vm to confirm this :)