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- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 1. INTRODUCTION
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- This document describes EDIT, a simple screen-oriented text editor
- and word processor.
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- 1.1. Features
- 1.1. Features
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- EDIT includes the following major features:
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- - A "modeless" editing style, where commands are given via function
- keys, and each command always means the same thing.
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- - Support for both insert and overtype (replace) forms of editing.
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- - Extensive, easy to use cursor movement commands, including
- movements by character, word, line, sentence, paragraph, screen,
- or movements to arbitary positions in a file.
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- - A wide range of single keystroke deletion commands.
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- - A set of simple commands for working with blocks of text,
- allowing block deletions, block insertions, moving blocks, and
- saving or retrieving blocks from files.
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- - Easy-to-use search and replace commands, including the ability to
- view and optionally replace each instance of a specified string.
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- - A wide range of file access commands.
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- - The ability to set a variety of text formatting parameters,
- including tabs, margins, page size, headers, footers, page
- numbering, spacing, and right justification.
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- - Control over the color of the text display and prompt areas.
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- - The ability to save and retrieve the values of settings affecting
- text formatting, printing, and editing.
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- - The ability set up a default configuration file, or to specify an
- arbitrary configuration file when EDIT is started.
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- - A method for associating settings for margins, page length, tabs,
- and such, with a particular file or group of files.
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- - On-screen text formatting, including right-justification of a
- single line, centering, creating bold or underlined text, and
- automatic paragraph reformatting.
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- - Optional right-justification of printed text.
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- - The ability to print either to a file, or directly to a printer.
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- - The ability to execute any DOS command directly, without leaving
- EDIT (only supported on DOS versions 2.0 and later).
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- - An easy method for defining a macro, a "programmed" sequence of
- commands.
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- 1.2. Execution Environment
- 1.2. Execution Environment
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- The following environment is required to run EDIT:
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- System: IBM-PC compatible system. The XT, At, and
- COMPAQ are all okay. The PCjr works with
- some restrictions, due to its different
- keyboard.
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- Monitor: 80 column graphics or monochrome monitor.
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- Memory: At least 64K bytes. 96K is prefered. EDIT
- will use up to 128K if available.
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- Operating System: DOS. 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, and 3.0 all work.
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- Printer: IBM matrix printer or compatible (any printer
- that supports the ASCII printable characters
- plus CR, LF, and FF).
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- 1.3 Installation
- 1.3 Installation
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- The EDIT distribution diskette contains the following files:
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- EDIT.EXE (the EDIT program itself)
- EDIT.HLP (the text used by EDIT's Help command)
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- To install EDIT, the user should copy both of these files onto the
- diskette or hard disk that will be used as the default drive when
- EDIT is executed. Generally, the current "default drive" is
- indicated by the DOS prompt. If the DOS prompt is
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- A>
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- then the current default drive is drive A.
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- To install EDIT on a computer with two diskette drives, the user
- would place a DOS diskette in drive A, place the EDIT diskette in
- drive B, and type the following command:
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- copy b:edit.* a:
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- After copying these two files onto the diskette in drive A, that
- diskette contains everything neccessary to run EDIT. The new EDIT
- diskette should be used to run EDIT. The original EDIT diskette
- should be kept in a safe place in case the new EDIT diskette is
- ruined.
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- To run edit, the user should assure that an EDIT diskette is in the
- current default drive, and then type
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- edit filename
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- where "filename" is the name of the file to create or edit. Section
- 2.2 describes how to run EDIT in greater detail.
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- The procedure to install EDIT on a hard disk is very similar. The
- user should copy both files from the EDIT distribution diskette onto
- the hard disk. They should be copied into the directory that will be
- used as the default directory when EDIT is executed.
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- For instructions on how to create a DOS diskette, and a more complete
- explanation of the "default drive" and "default directory", the user
- should consult the DOS section of the Guide To Operations manual, or
- the Disk Operating System User's Guide.
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