EDLIN
The edlin program is a small line editor, written for FreeDOS as a functional
clone of the old MS-DOS program edlin. It differs from MS edlin in that
first, it's free software, and second, the user interface is slightly
different in a few places. The reason for the difference is so that the user
does not have to type in control characters mandated by MS edlin's syntax.
INVOKING EDLIN
The edlin program is invoked either by itself:
edlin
or with a filename that's initially read in:
edlin file
EDLIN'S INTERNAL COMMANDS
The edlin internal commands are described in the HTML file that comes in this
distro.
COMPILING EDLIN
The edlin program has been tested with these compilers:
Microsoft Visual C++:
To compile with M$VC++, first rename config-h.msc to config.h. Then, have
the symbol HAVE_CONFIG_H defined on the command line or in the project file.
Borland C++:
Use the makefile Makefile.bc. The makefile should copy config-h.bc to config.h
before compiling.
The Japanese port uses Borland filenames. To compile it properly, the symbol
SHIFT_JIS must be defined on the command line. It includes <dos.h>, <conio.h>,
and <jctype.h>.
GNU gcc under Cygwin:
Compiling under Cygwin should be as easy as
./configure;make;make install
as edlin has been successfully autoconfiscated. ;-)
If you don't want to use the ./configure script, Eric Auer has noted that
after copying config-h.bc to config.h and renaming your favorite msgs-*.h
file to msgs.h,
gcc -o edlin.exe -Wall *.c
should also work. I'm leaving the configure script and Makefile in there,
though, as the generated Makefile can also be used to install edlin and
create distros. ;-)
OpenWatcom:
To compile under OpenWatcom, just use the edlin.wpj file. It is currently set
up for 16-bit FreeDOS, but can easily be changed.
Gregory Pietsch, 2003-06-09