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Re: Public Domain Text Editor

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From: MARK FREEDMAN
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 06:22
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pi>In article <90021712385334@masnet.uucp> mark.freedman@canremote.uucp
pi>(MARK FREEDMAN) writes: >      Edwin 1.5c   (EDWIN15C.ZIP) is another
pi>Wordstar / Borland IDE >   style editor which supports macros and
pi>multiple windows. According to

pi>So is VDE (Visual Document Editor) which can be found from SIMTEL20,
pi>whole path is pd:<msdos.editor>vde15.arc. It's free, written in ASM
pi>and has some configuration parameters. It's quite nice, but still -
pi>QEdit is the most promising of the editors I've tried.

   Not to start an "editor war", but one of the features which sold
me on EDWIN is the ability to handle large files (limited by available
memory). The version of VDE I tried was limited to 64K chunks.

   Qedit seems very good, but I can't justify spending the $50 for it
right now.
     mark.freedman@canremote.uucp - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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From: mark.freedman@canremote.uucp (MARK FREEDMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Public Domain Text Editor
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Date: 22 Feb 90 06:22:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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