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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Hey Exodus!

On Wed, Feb 04 2026 09:57:50 -0600, you wrote:

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Look at that fancy shit! :D

Regards,
Nick

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Look at that fancy shit! :D

hahahah ... Yeah, new release here sometime this year. I added a lightbar setup for the message reading, and I am just finishing up the light bar setup for the file listings. Figured after 23 years it's about time. :)

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

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. Than you guys.

Any DOS editor would run in DOSBOX and give you a better experience than edit.exe.
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On Wednesday, February 4th Nightfox was heard saying...

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.

I'm looking for a text editor that would open .txt files in DOS and let me work with the content and then save it in the legacy "DOSey" format.
I'll look for and try QEdit as you suggested. Thank you!!

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Re: Re: Dateline: Vegas! (DOS .txt editor)
By: Malvinas to Nightfox on Thu Feb 05 2026 10:36:20

I'm looking for a text editor that would open .txt files in DOS and let me work with the content and then save it in the legacy "DOSey" format.

"DOSey format"? No such thing. A .TXT file is a .TXT file.
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Hey Exodus!

On Wed, Feb 04 2026 16:57:39 -0600, you wrote:

hahahah ... Yeah, new release here sometime this year. I added a
lightbar setup for the message reading, and I am just finishing up
the light bar setup for the file listings. Figured after 23 years
it's about time. :)

Are you now catering to the people that are too lazy to make mods themselves? If that's the case, some of us could start a pretty long list for you, if you're interested! :D

Regards,
Nick

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Are you now catering to the people that are too lazy to make mods themselve If that's the case, some of us could start a pretty long list for you, if you're interested! :D

I figure no one else (besides a few) helped over 20 years, so I might as well. I also made a bunch of utils as well a few weeks ago I threw on the website. Check those out before you start throwing suggestions. <G>

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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.

http://www.malsmith.net/edit/

Yedit is the closest I've found for Windows console if that's what you mean. If you're interested in an editor for actual DOS, I can easily grab edit.* from DOS 7 and transfer it to you. I have a box of Windows 95 COAs in storage so it wouldn't even be illegal.

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"DOSey format"? No such thing. A .TXT file is a .TXT file.

Nope. Going back to the days of teletype machines there are two ASCII symbols associated with the end of a line, Carriage Return (ASCII 13) and Line Feed(ASCII 10). One made the print head return to the start of a line and the other made the paper advance by a line.

Originally you needed both or you'd end up starting the next line in wrong place and either typing over your last line or running off the end of the page.

Nowadays DOS/Windows computers still expect a CR/LF at the end of every line, while Unixy OSes like Mac and Linux expect just a LF, but old classic Macs used just a CR.

And then there's also Unicode txt files, where some characters are 2 bytes wide.

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Hey Exodus!

On Thu, Feb 05 2026 16:49:14 -0600, you wrote:

I figure no one else (besides a few) helped over 20 years, so I
might as well. I also made a bunch of utils as well a few weeks ago
I threw on the website. Check those out before you start throwing suggestions. <G>

I was completely joking. I've already proved to you I can still mod Renegade. I wouldn't need you to do it for me. :)

Regards,
Nick

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I was completely joking. I've already proved to you I can still mod Renegad I wouldn't need you to do it for me. :)

Oh I know you were ... I figured I'd just give some back. <G>

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On Thursday,February 05, 2026 at 01:52 PM, Mortar M. (21:2/101) wrote:

Re: Re: Dateline: Vegas! (DOS .txt editor)
By: Malvinas to Nightfox on Thu Feb 05 2026 10:36:20

I'm looking for a text editor that would open .txt files in DOS and
let me
work with the content and then save it in the legacy "DOSey" format.

"DOSey format"? No such thing. A .TXT file is a .TXT file.

DOS Text files : line endings = CR/LF (\r\n) ; EOF marker = CTRL-Z
UNIX/Linux Text files : line endings = LF (\n)

Depending on the software used to edit/read/write the text file, this could make a difference in behavior.



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On 05 Feb 2026, Mortar M. said the following...

"DOSey format"? No such thing. A .TXT file is a .TXT file.
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As others have stated, I need to process ASCII content saved in .txt files, within DOS-Box, and if I bring in the .txt files saved with Windows notepad, the "behaviour" changes drastically... I need something I can work with right within DOS-Box and not have to drown in the UNICODEvsASCII .txt save format nightmare that is a x64 privative OS.

Pol Malvinas.

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