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XP COMMAND DESCRIPTION
APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





EDIT  View and edit files.  
Edit allows a user to view, create and or modify their computer files.

If you are unable to get this program to run work try typing in "path c:\windows\command" if you have Windows95/98 or type in "path c:\dos", if you have Dos 5.x/6.x/7.x or Windows 3.x and try again if still you are not able to get edit to work it may not be on the hard drive type in dir edit.com /s at the c:\> if it says that the file is not found you may not have this feature.

If you are running a MS-DOS version 4.x or lower or you are unable to find edit.com on your hard disk drive you can also use the following command to create a file.

copy con <name of file>

Once you have entered the above command this will create the file by the name specified.
Once you have typed all the lines you wish to be in the file press and hold CTRL + Z. This should enter ^Z, once on the screen press the enter and one file should be copied.
 
SYNTAX

EDIT [/B] [/H] [/R] [/S] [/<nnn>] [/?] [file(s)]

/B Forces monochrome mode.
/H Displays the maximum number of lines possible for your hardware.
/R Load file(s) in read-only mode.
/S  Forces the use of short filenames.
/<nnn> Load binary file(s), wrapping lines to <nnn> characters wide.
/?  Displays this help screen.
[file] Specifies initial files(s) to load. Wildcards and multiple file specs can be given.

EXAMPLES

edit c:\autoexec.bat = This would look at the autoexec.bat however if the file is not found you will have a blank blue screen. When editing this or any file ensure that you know what you are placing in the files.

Using edit you can also create files, for example if you wanted to create a file called myfile.txt you would type:

edit myfile.txt <press enter>

This would bring up a blank edit screen, as long as the file is saved upon exit this will create the file myfile.txt.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Edit is only able to open a file with a maximum of 65,280 lines.

Because this file is generally used from MS-DOS it can be a possibility for no mouse support within the file. The following is a listing of Edit's shortcut keys and what they do.

Quick Tip - Simply pressing Alt will allow you to quickly navigate through edit without having to memorize the following commands.

Home - Move cursor to the beginning of the line currently on.
End - Move cursor to the end of the line currently on.
Ctrl + Up - Scroll up one line.
Ctrl + Down - Scroll down one line.
PageUp - Scroll up one screen.
PageDown - Scroll down one screen.
Ctrl + PageUp - Scroll left one screen.
Ctrl + PageDown - Scroll right one screen.
Ctrl + Home - Scroll to the top of the document.
Ctrl + End - Scroll to the bottom of the document.
Ctrl + Left - Move left one word.
Ctrl + Right - Move right one word.
Enter  - Starts a new line or moves text after cursor down.
Delete (Del) - Deletes one character that cursor is on or currently selected text.
Backspace - Deletes one character before the cursor.
Tab - Moves cursor or text to next tab stop, or indents line if at first character.
Insert - Switch between insert and overwrite modes.
Ctrl + Y - Deletes the current line.
Ctrl + V - Pastes contents currently within buffer if any.
Ctrl + P - Allows special characters to be inserted into Edit.
Shift - Using shift in combination with any of the above scrolling or moving commands will highlight text such as Ctrl + Shift + Right.
Ctrl + C - Copies currently selected text into buffer.
Ctrl + X - Cuts the currently selected text into buffer.
Shift + Tab - Un-indents the currently selected line.
Ctrl + Q + F - Find text.
Ctrl + Q + A - Find and replace text.
F3 - Repeat last search.
F6 - Switch to the next edit window if any.
Ctrl + F6 - Open new edit window.
Ctrl + F4 - Closes second edit window.
Ctrl + F8 - Resizes edit window.
F1 - Displays help.

APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY




 
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