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

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"Robert H. Kubie" wrote:
>
> 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?

The answer is yes and no. There isn't a simple way of
composing and executing a file consisting of several
commands to be executed serially. But there is a scripting
language - which needs a fair bit of learning.
(Microsoftly, it's supported by a number of apps .. )
John


>
> --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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