DOS ain't dead

> I know I was also mentioning Japheth's LOADPEX DOS builds too, which also
> seem to work well.

I once recompiled FTE for HX, using VisualC++ 2003 Toolkit - with 2 or 3 bugs fixed ( one was a crash when one exits FTE while "horizontal split" is still active ). Regrettably the changes and the makefile I used are lost. The only thing that survived is a FTE binary in Win32 format ( dated 01/2009 ).

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MS-DOS forever!

> Is there a definitive DOS version of FTE?
>
> Is there a specific known "latest greatest" or preferred version?

FWIW, I uploaded the CVS repo here. Other than for archival purposes, I don’t really care about this editor much.

> Is there a specific known "latest greatest" or preferred version?

After a bug in HX's Win32 emulation code has been fixed (see here), I updated the FTE DOS binaries created with OW 2.0 and MSVC 7.1. The FTE Shell/Run commands should now work ok for MS-DOS versions < 7 ( I haven't tested FreeDOS yet ).

P.S.: Also tried other OW 2.0 DOS32 variants of FTE:

- DOS4G/W: unstable
- PModeW: unstable
- CauseWay: stable

P.P.S.: And finally tried the DJGPP makefile supplied with FTE: got a few warnings and the result is unstable if the program runs as VCPI client and CWSDPMI is used as DPMI host (the default).

The test was
a) to load a 108 MB text file with 1.5 mio lines
b) run FTE's Shell/Run cmds


https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/FTE/releases

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MS-DOS forever!