

This version can only open one file, to the limit of DOS memory. Early Chicago betas included this version too. VersionsĮdit version 1.0 appeared in MS-DOS / PC-DOS 5.00, OS/2, and Windows NT to 4.0. Being a 16-bit DOS application, it won't directly run on 64-bit Windows versions. Edit is still included in later versions of Windows such as Windows XP, Windows Vista 32 bit, and Windows 7 32 bit.

Editor can be launched by typing it into the Run command dialog on Windows, and by typing edit into the command-line interface. MS-DOS versions are limited to approximately 300 KB, depending on how much conventional memory is free. Editor can edit files that are up to 65,279 lines and up to approximately 5 MB in size. Until MS-DOS 6.22 it was actually QBasic running in editor mode, but from DOS 7 ( Windows 95) QBasic was removed and MS-DOS Editor became a standalone program.Įditor is sometimes used as a substitute for Notepad on Windows 9x, where Notepad is limited to small files only. It superseded edlin, the standard editor in earlier versions. MS-DOS Editor, commonly just called edit, is a character-based text editor that comes with MS-DOS (since version 5) and 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
