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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- From: lemieux@eecg.toronto.edu (Guy Gerard Lemieux)
- Subject: Re: Whats needed to run E.EXE?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.151422.5766@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- References: <19AUG199208472481@cl2.cl.uh.edu> <1992Aug19.203858.16715@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 19:14:23 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
-
- >In article <19AUG199208472481@cl2.cl.uh.edu> CSCI11BA@cl.uh.edu writes:
- >>Greetings,
- >>
- >>I just made myself a bootable floppy with MAKEBOOT.CMD, and now I am
- >>trying to figure out how to invoke the system editor (E.EXE)...
- >>with no luck. It seems the more DLL's I point to in config.sys, the
- >>more trouble I am getting myself into. Id like to be able to put
- >>E.EXE on a floppy, and run it from there, just in case the HD crashes, etc.
- >>
- >>So, can anybody tell me what I need to stick on the floppy in order to
- >>execute the system editor without the system telling me it cant find
- >>'xxxx'.DLL???
-
- >Not bloody likely. E.EXE is a PM application. PM is a huge slew of
- >DLL's. There isn't enough room on two floppies to hold them, even if
- >there was nothing else there.
-
- Try ftp software.watson.ibm.com in pub/os2. There is a TINYED program
- which is very good (it is only 9k!). The key sequences are very
- similar to the enhanced editor for many functions. You have cut+paste,
- line moving, etc.
-
- Guy
-