On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:14:55 +0100, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

> >but as soon as DOS started shipping with QBASIC (whose editor was
> >invoked by the "edit" command) I was happy to never use it again.
> 
> Amen to that. In fact the Edit command is a batch file that invoked Qbasic
> with the parameter /edit IIRC.

Indeed - I used to carry around a bootable DOS 5 diskette that had QBASIC, the EDIT batch file and a few other 
useful commands, for sorting out problems on clients' machines.  Very few problems needed more than that plus 
whatever was on the machine itself.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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