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- From: haymoree@bones (Edward Haymore)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: Freeware editor recommendation wanted
- Message-ID: <he#@byu.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:46:46 GMT
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- ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples) writes:
- : In article <9962@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
- : >Can anyone recommend a good, simple freeware msdos text editor? It
- : >doesn't need a lot of fancy word processing features, but it does have
- : >to be able to produce standard ascii files with no special formatting
- :
- : I am also interested in this. I have been using VDE (version 1.51) which
- : is *excellent* and is free for private use (but see further below).
- : It is *very* quick because it does everything in memory. But that is the
- : problem - it only handles files up to about 80k (it uses some internal
- : algorithm to reduce that to a standard 64k segment). The default command
- : set follows traditional WordStar, which is also good for many people.
- :
- : However, I need something that can handle files of any size within reason
- : (say up to about 400k) to process large data files. While this can be
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- Try TDE in the EDITOR directory on Simtel -- it's fast, has lots of features,
- is easy to use, handles up to about 450k files, does multiple text windows,
- and is free. Even has selectable word wrapping and autoindentation.
-
- If you don't need so many features and don't have to access 64k+ files,
- TED is a good alternative.
-
- --
- Ed Haymore
- ed_haymore@byu.edu
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