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This one paragraph sums up a decade of MS-DOS use for me:

"The original MS-DOS Editor represented a major step forward for Microsoft's command-line text-editing capabilities at the time of its release. Before 1991, DOS users suffered through EDLIN, a line-based editor so primitive and user-hostile that many people resorted to typing "COPY CON filename.txt" and hoping for the best."

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2025-06-24 05:39:03

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Microsoft's relaunch of EDIT for Linux implies that they're relaunching QBASIC for Linux

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…



Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux

It’s funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be.
Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)

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Edlin was a MS/DOS compatible version of the Unix ed utility and it was awkward to use. I was very happy to see edit though I was not using it long before I migrated to GNU/Linux and found I preferred vi and later vim which I still use today.

If someone is a basic developer on GNU/Linux I am sure they would find gambas far more useful than qbasic though I do have a soft spot for these nostalgic applications. 😉

So I did build a copy of edit and installed it on my system. 😀

A screenshot of MSEDIT running on Fedora
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