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- EDLIN
-
- The edlin program is a small line editor, written for FreeDOS as a functional
- clone of the old MS-DOS program edlin. It differs from MS edlin in that
- first, it's free software, and second, the user interface is slightly
- different in a few places. The reason for the difference is so that the user
- does not have to type in control characters mandated by MS edlin's syntax.
-
- INVOKING EDLIN
-
- The edlin program is invoked either by itself:
-
- edlin
-
- or with a filename that's initially read in:
-
- edlin file
-
- EDLIN'S INTERNAL COMMANDS
-
- The edlin internal commands are described in the HTML file that comes in this
- distro.
-
- COMPILING EDLIN
-
- The edlin program has been tested with these compilers:
-
- Microsoft Visual C++:
-
- To compile with M$VC++, first rename config-h.msc to config.h. Then, have
- the symbol HAVE_CONFIG_H defined on the command line or in the project file.
-
- Borland C++:
-
- Use the makefile Makefile.bc. The makefile should copy config-h.bc to config.h
- before compiling.
-
- GNU gcc under Cygwin:
-
- Compiling under Cygwin should be as easy as
-
- ./configure;make;make install
-
- as edlin has been successfully autoconfiscated. ;-)
-
- If you don't want to use the ./configure script, Eric Auer has noted that
- after copying config-h.bc to config.h and renaming your favorite msgs-*.h
- file to msgs.h,
-
- gcc -o edlin.exe -Wall *.c
-
- should also work. I'm leaving the configure script and Makefile in there,
- though, as the generated Makefile can also be used to install edlin and
- create distros. ;-)
-
- Gregory Pietsch, 2003-06-09
-