Early DOS editors

From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley_at_bickleywest.com>
Date: Sat Feb 5 01:47:47 2005

They are a commercial vendor. See:
http://www.mkssoftware.com/

Lyle

On Friday 04 February 2005 23:30, 9000 VAX wrote:
> > QEdit is very good and I used it extensively years ago.
> >
> > Now I use vi under DOS, The vi (and the associated grep, mv, cp, ls,
> > more, ...) I found from an vintage FAT disk is very good. I don't know
> > who wrote them. When you program under DOS, grep is precious.
>
> I powered up my DOS computer and found the following information:
>
> 3.1c "MKS Toolkit" "Fri Sep 28 13:45:05 1990"
>
> There are other useful programs, such as tar, diff, du, df, deroff,
> cpio, compress, wc, uudecode, uuencode, awk, ed, sed... in the
> toolkit. There are 112 .exe files! I don't know who this "MKS" is and
> if it is OK I can send those who are interested a copy (a tar ball,
> that's for sure).
>
> vax, 9000

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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
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