I am looking for a small dos based text editor called rped.exe.
I used to use this years ago but can not remember where I got it from.
It was one of the best text editors I ever used for dos.
Anyone know from where I can obtain it please.
Google wasn't my best friend for this
Jim G
In message , the_constructor writes
Wasn't it on the installation discs for DOS 3.3, or is my memory failing?
News wrote, on 20/11/2011 07:52:
I believe that RPED.EXE was a contraction of Roland Perry EDitor, and that it came with early Amstrad machines. He should be along shortly either to confirm or to deny this allegation. :)
Wikipedia says:- "The PC version of Mallard Basic is still available from LocoScript Software as an MS-DOS program which will run under Windows as a Disc only version with licence or with the full Introduction & Reference manual."
Twenty quid as Disc only, or an extra twenty for the manual.
One issue of course about maybe installing dos as a second OS is that as far as I'm aware some of the low level dos programs cannot cope with ntfs discs.
However whether the editor in question, which is an Amstrad thing, would work in a pseudo Dos window is something one would have to suck and see.
Brian
a text editor is not a low level program
If the DOS is running as a shell in windows, then windows itself should handle disk access.
If sorce exists, it could be re-compiled anyway.
I should have mentioned in original post that it was a machine running solely Dos. Windows will go nowhere near it.
Jim G
I am all sorted now.
Many thanks
Jim G
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