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EDITENV VERSION 1.04 USER MANUAL
Copyright(c) 1990 by DME Systems Specialties
P.O. BOX 2896
LAGUNA HILLS, CA 92654-2896
(714) 643-9767
* Note * Register users will be sent a new version without the initial
copyright screen.
Editenv is a simple text editor with the special ability to read
and edit your environment. DOS has a limit of 127 characters on a
command line but will support environment variables up to 1024
characters long. With Editenv you can set up a long PATH or any
other environment variable to this maximum length.
Editenv also has the ability to read in a data file and load it
into your environment. In this way, you can save off your
favorite settings and load the back with one command in your
autoexec.bat file. You no longer will have to have 10 or 20 SET
commands to process.
There are 9 function keys available in Editenv. They are described
as follows:
<F1> - This key will bring up a help screen.
<F2> - Pressing this key will "Pick up" the current line and
allow you to move it with the up and down arrow keys.
Pressing the enter key will release the line where it
currently is.
<F3> - This key will delete the currently highlighted line.
<F4> - This key will insert a blank line at the current
location.
<F5> - Pressing this key will sort the edit buffer
alphabetically.
<F6> - This key will allow you to load a small file, 64k max,
into the edit buffer in place of the environment. You
may then edit the file and save it. This is very useful
for editing your autoexec.bat and config.sys files.
<F7> - This key will save a file you have loaded with the F6
key.
<F8> - Pressing this key will reload the environment from DOS's
memory. This is useful if you have made a lot of changes
and decide to start over, or to reload the environment
after editing a file.
<Esc>- This is the exit key. You will be asked if you wish to
save the environment/file that you are currently editing.
There is a status line on the top of the screen showing the maximum
buffer size, the current size of the contents and the space
available in the buffer.
There are 3 command line switch for Editenv. The first is /F=.
This switch should be followed by a full drive path to a data file
you wish to load into the environment. A sample would be
'EDITENV /F=PATH.DAT'
where PATH.DAT resides in the current directory. The entire
contents of the data file are loaded into the environment. DO NOT
PLACE THE WORD 'SET' ON THESE LINES. They should appear in the file
in the same format as DOS shows them to you when you execute a SET
command from DOS.
The second command line switch is /L.
This switch will allow EDITENV to edit the LOCAL environment of the
current dos shell you are running. This is very usefull for making
changes to different DesqView windows environments or to make some
temporary changes when you have shelled out of any other program.
The third command line switch is /NOTR
This switch will allow trailing spaces in your environment variables.
This main reason for this feature is to allow the DOS prompt to end
in a space. This allows a prompt to appear as:
D:\SUBDIR _
HELPFUL HINTS
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HINT 1: Try entering the following command:
SET > filename.dat <---- any new file name
This will create a file with your current environment in it
and allow you to edit and load it as needed.
HINT 2:
Editenv uses your current colors and the inverse of those colors.
This may produce some unreadable inverse colors. I.E. If you have your
normal colors set to bright yellow on blue, the inverse used is black on
normal yellow (brown for some). Future version may have a color install
program.