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Text Editor

Text Editor is a full screen text file editor that supports opening multiple windows to edit files. It's a small editor, with a maximum edit size of 64K, in order to save memory.

Text Editor uses the familiar WordStar (r) style keybindings, i.e, ^KB to mark the beginning of a block, ^KK to mark the end, as well as common user interface method, i.e, Shift+Insert to Paste, Ctrl+Del to Clear.

System Requirements

MS-DOS 3.0 or later
256K RAM
100K available disk space

Recommended Requirements

MS-DOS 6.0 or later (or compatible OS)
512K RAM
100K available disk space

Download Text Editor Build 170 (51k .zip file)

Download Text Editor Build 170 source code (7k .zip file)

Bug fixes/Revision updates

I have included a brief summary of the changes for Text Editor since the initial version 1.0. Any of these versions can be regenerated if need be.

1.7 Fixed lockup situation because TE could not find it's resource file
Thanks to Ken Davis for pointing this out to me.

1.6 Fixed code to allow opening of blank file if no filename listed. Thanks to Ralf Quint for pointing this flaw out to me. Added
string constants for the help hints to TECONST.PAS.

1.5 Added hint status line and ability to read from resource files. Also fixed command constants in TEDOS.PAS and added help constants
to TECONST.PAS

1.4          Updated status line code. Fixed backup flag checking routine so
              that the auto backup feature could be disabled. Fixed command
              constants

1.3 Code cleanup. Fixed usage information and added commands for
changing colors and redrawing (or repainting) the desktop

1.2 Added procedure for Color selection dialog and added menu item for repainting desktop. In main module, TE.PAS, the revision code
section was fixed. Added diagnostic option to command line

1.1 Code cleanup/restructuring

1.0 Initial version