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Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS (Users)

posted by Zyzzle, 23.04.2022, 01:38

> AFAIK, LIST is simply a file viewer and does not let you edit/modify
> anything. I use LIST to look at files all the time.

Could be, but I'd swear there was a version that allowed editing as well. Perhaps I'm misremembering, but the LIST Enhanced seemed to allow editing.

Another great program which does allow HEX editing (and insertion) is old DOS CONVERT.EXE from 1989 (?), but it writes huge temporary files (swap files) to the drive, and so is best used with a huge RAMDRIVE which stores the temp files. The program itself, therefore, doesn't require any XMS or EMS memory (except for the huge RAMDRIVE!) It's also slow when "updating" after inserting files, but I've used it on some huge files, up to and in excess of 1 GB, using HIMEMSX and the new FAT32 ramdrive recently posted.

Complete thread:

• Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - jejump, 19.04.2022, 22:41 (Users)
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - mceric, 20.04.2022, 09:24
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - RayeR, 20.04.2022, 11:46
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - Oso2k, 21.04.2022, 01:17
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - bretjohn, 21.04.2022, 20:13
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - Zyzzle, 22.04.2022, 02:31
      • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - jadoxa, 22.04.2022, 16:50
        • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - rr, 23.04.2022, 13:53
      • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - bretjohn, 22.04.2022, 18:59
        • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - Zyzzle, 23.04.2022, 01:38
          • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - Guti, 23.04.2022, 09:05
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - rr, 23.04.2022, 14:48
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - iw2evk, 23.04.2022, 14:54
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - SuperIlu, 24.04.2022, 17:22
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - jejump, 25.04.2022, 01:28
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - rr, 25.04.2022, 08:13