I'm in the airport at a lounge, drinking tepid coffee. My company has a 3-day conference in Vegas, and I'm looking forward to a change in scenery.

First, I wanted to check messages on the BBS. I copied my SyncTerm and Multimail directories to my work laptop - so far so good. Didn't bring my editor install. That's OK, I can install it from the web. Crowdstrike would beg to differ - as it's wont to do. I logged into the console and whitelisted it, but apparently you can't force a policy update. I tried rebooting, but to no avail.

I have the new Microsoft Edit - it's interesting. Not sure how it'll handle word wrapping in a packet.


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Re: Dateline: Vegas!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Mon Feb 02 2026 03:31 pm

I have the new Microsoft Edit - it's interesting. Not sure how it'll handle word wrapping in a packet.

I've seen their new Edit, and it looks interesting. I've heard it will be included by default in Windows 11 now too.

It looks like it's available for Linux as well.. Microsoft has a GitHub page for it, with downloads:

https://github.com/microsoft/edit

There's also a page with Snap packages for Edit, for Linux distributions & setups that use Snap:

https://snapcraft.io/msedit

I have both the new Microsoft Edit and SemWare's QEdit (which is now freeware), though I haven't used either of them very much (yet). It's interesting to see a couple of old favorite DOS-based editors still alive.

Nightfox
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Hey Poindexter!

On Mon, Feb 02 2026 17:31:32 -0600, you wrote:

I'm in the airport at a lounge, drinking tepid coffee. My company
has a 3-day conference in Vegas, and I'm looking forward to a change
in scenery.

First, I wanted to check messages on the BBS. I copied my SyncTerm
and Multimail directories to my work laptop - so far so good. Didn't
bring my editor install. That's OK, I can install it from the web. Crowdstrike would beg to differ - as it's wont to do. I logged into
the console and whitelisted it, but apparently you can't force a
policy update. I tried rebooting, but to no avail.

I have the new Microsoft Edit - it's interesting. Not sure how it'll
handle word wrapping in a packet.

Looks good from this angle. I think MultiMail handles your word wrapping, though, so it probably doesn't matter what editor you use. From my limited use of MultiMail with nano as my editor (using the entire 160 character wide terminal), when posted into MultiMail it has always displayed 80 columns wide.

If there was any settings in MultiMail to change that, I didn't see them.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Dateline: Vegas!
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Feb 02 2026 16:45:36

I have both the new Microsoft Edit and SemWare's QEdit...

Is this the same thing as their TSE?
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I have the new Microsoft Edit - it's interesting. Not sure how it'll handle word wrapping in a packet.

Apparently it handled it. ;)
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Re: Dateline: Vegas!
By: Mortar M. to Nightfox on Tue Feb 03 2026 01:43 pm

I have both the new Microsoft Edit and SemWare's QEdit...

Is this the same thing as their TSE?

Ah, yes, as far as I know, it is.

Nightfox
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I have both the new Microsoft Edit and SemWare's QEdit (which is now freeware), though I haven't used either of them very much (yet). It's interesting to see a couple of old favorite DOS-based editors still
alive.

Do you guys know of a replacement for the original MS-DOS 6.22 edit.com editor? Something that would run in DOS-Box and not native x64 Windows.
Thank you guys.

Pol Malvinas.

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Re: Re: Dateline: Vegas! (DOS .txt editor)
By: Malvinas to Nightfox on Wed Feb 04 2026 02:34 pm

I have both the new Microsoft Edit and SemWare's QEdit (which is now

Do you guys know of a replacement for the original MS-DOS 6.22 edit.com editor? Something that would run in DOS-Box and not native x64 Windows. Thank you guys.

Are you looking for an exact replacement that has the same features and behaves the same way, or just an alternative text editor? If you want an alternative editor, SemWare's QEdit was around in the DOS days and there was a DOS version of that, so that's an option. I used to use it, and I think it's pretty good.

Nightfox
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Do you guys know of a replacement for the original MS-DOS 6.22 edit.com editor? Something that would run in DOS-Box and not native x64 Windows. Thank you guys.

I still use EDIT.COM .... it's only 3 files from Win95 or Win98 EDIT.COM, EDIT.HLP and EDIT.INI. Copy those to your path and enjoy EDIT.COM. I used it to code Renegade and to make the Renegade Web page.

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