cctech Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7 -- DOS/Win3.X Text Editors

From: Jim Leonard <trixter_at_oldskool.org>
Date: Thu Feb 10 20:43:16 2005

Barry Watzman wrote:
> Originally it worked perfectly, but sometime around DOS 6
> there was a change it DOS that causes it not to properly exit when you are
> done, and you end up with a file problem that has to be cleaned up manually.

Sounds like you're using FCBs (File Control Blocks) which IIRC support was
unofficially dropped. Change to standard file handling and you should be fine.

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