Re: TED--a Linux Xy-type editor?

["Robert H. Kubie" rhkubie@xxxxxxxx]

I used to use TED to write batch files in DOS. A lovely, neat little utility.

I have now been running various versions of Windows for years, but have
never learned if there is a Windows equivalent to a DOS batch file. I
suspect that everybody else in the world knows the answer to that question,
but I don't.


Will somebody kindly put me out of my misery? Is there? What is it?

--Bob Kubie



At 12:16 PM 8/15/2004, Norman Bauman wrote:
> I used to use TED.COM, and the revision TED3, the DOS versions of TED (Tiny
> EDitor) all the time. I loved it. If you like simplicity, it's beautiful.
> It used XyWrite-compatible files, and was especially useful for tweaking
> the ASCII codes, like deleting those pesky end-of-file codes (which used to
> crash one of my email lists).
>
> It had a nice document file. It had a simple F-key interface, and also used
> Wordstar commands.
>
> However, it didn't have word wrap, according to the docs. (XyWrite II was
> the only small word processing program with word wrap that I know of.)
>
> TED.COM must be available on the Internet. If you can't find it, and have
> any use for it, or are just curious, I'll send you a copy. (All 2,984 bytes
> of it.)
>
> A lot of programmers wrote enhancements of TED.COM, so the source code must
> have been floating around, or obvious. Maybe some of the Linux editors
> could serve as a basis for a new Linux-based XyWrite.
>
> BTW, you probably know this, but if you go to DOS in most Windows
> installations, and type EDIT, you'll get the DOS editing program, which is
> also nice, but doesn't have word wrap either.
>
> Norman
>
> At 11:01 PM 8/14/04 -0400, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> >
> >This is re the eventual death of XyWrite due to being not runnable on
> >future OS's.
> >
> >Searching the web for a Xywrite-type editor, I hit upon "TED" for Linux:
> >
> >"TED is a multi-purpose text editor with IDE (integrated development
> >environment) features for UNIX-like operating systems. It is not a word
> >processor although it does provide some word processing facilities. TED has
> >no internal restrictions on file length or line length.
>
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