Julian Richardson wrote:
>
> >> When I typed "system disk" I meant one
> >> with an appropriate collection of utilities, which with code bloat
> >> can be hard to fit on a 720k disk -- since "edit" needs "?basic" etc.
>
> Get the GNU DOS port of vi - has the benefit of being a standard, very
> powerful, reliable and takes up 120KB or so (OK, that's a lot more than
> ideal for an editor, but at least you don't need all the extra garbage
> that you have to have with standard MS-DOS 'edit') - of course, if
> you've never used vi before, you're gonna hate it :)
I was using vi before I was using edlin -- side effect of being a
Radio Shack tech support type when Xenix showed up before MS-DOS.
(And the MKS vi port worked great on the Tandy 2000). The advice
was for somebody wanting functional floppies for a DG-1, I don't
assume everybody has my taste in utilities -- and while I have
the GNU vi for DOS, I hardly ever use it, since I only run DOS
myself in an emulator under Linux -- so I use GNU vi in a proper
environment most of the time, and it ain't the DOS port.
And yes, I'd rather forgotten about the mode command under MS-DOS
2.11 being so variable (dead brain cells) -- and I suspect that a
DG-1 specific copy would be beneficial.
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Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 12:34:49 GMT