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First post, by sageek

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Hi. i am sagi kerman and i am a computer programmer in over 20 languages. i am using dosbox for a month an a hath now. it is getting very annoying that i have to go to the mounted folder on the computer and change the files from there. i'd love if you will add some veirson of the edit command soon. thank you, sagi kerman.
[code]a 100
jmp 115
db 'Hello, World!$'

a 115
mov ah, 09
mov dx, 102
int 21
int 20

h 11e 100
rcx
1e
n hello.com
w
q[/code]

Reply 1 of 4, by gamax92

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Or, you could just use MS-DOS's EDIT.COM or the several hundred editors that exist for DOS

Like this: http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=edit
or these: http://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/txtedit1.htm
or these: http://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/txtedit2.htm
or even these: http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MsDosEditors

Reply 3 of 4, by Dominus

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There is a hackish way by emendelson. Search his posts.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 4 of 4, by mr_bigmouth_502

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Given DosBox's gaming-oriented nature, I doubt an editor will become a standard part of it anytime soon, but edit.com from an old DOS install or startup disc will probably work just fine.