Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS floppy edition boot disk lacks an editor?

2022-12-05 Thread tom ehlert
> You really don't want a 160 kb editor on a floppy (unless you copy it > to a RAM disk). copying it to a RAM disk will require 1 or 2 seconds every time you boot this floppy. starting this from floppy requires 1 or 2 seconds every time you use the editor - usually less often then you use to bo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS floppy edition boot disk lacks an editor?

2022-12-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:58 AM Bret Johnson wrote: > > FWIW, the one I use is also called TED and is an old utility from PC > Magazine. The executable is only about 3 kB > (way smaller than the EDLIN that comes with MS-DOS) and is a VERY basic text > editor with a TUI > (it's not a line-or

[Freedos-devel] clamav - remove or not remove?

2022-12-05 Thread Fritz Mueller
Hi, as the actual FDT2212 once again has the older virus definition database (version 51, latest usable version for FD is version 54 without daily.csv) and only clamscan files on board I wonder if it makes sense to keep this "as is" , to update it or to remove it completely. I have reported about

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS floppy edition boot disk lacks an editor?

2022-12-05 Thread Bret Johnson
FWIW, the one I use is also called TED and is an old utility from PC Magazine. The executable is only about 3 kB (way smaller than the EDLIN that comes with MS-DOS) and is a VERY basic text editor with a TUI (it's not a line-oriented interface like EDLIN so is more intuitive to use). It gets t

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS floppy edition boot disk lacks an editor?

2022-12-05 Thread Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi Ralf, thank for the advise. I have a copy of David King’s TED lying around which I tend to use in such situations. The binary is 12KiB. In this case, the license probably speaks against the integration. https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Ted3 From a user-friendliness point of view, my