Re: Ping: OG



Top wrote:
In article <h13meb$jea$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, pholland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Top wrote:
I used pctools more than I ever used any of the norton utilities. Much handier and put all I needed at my fingertips. I used qedit to write most of my batch files. It was the only editor I ever found that would edit/move text in column mode. It was also easy to edit ansi graphics.
I meant Qedit. I think it can still be found around the net somewhere.

sure is,
sourceforge, http://qedit.sourceforge.net/index.php

robelle, http://qedit.com/

and a couple others that escape me today

If I did much test editing in a windows environment I would still use it. I still have the manual for it I think. Remember those days, when you actually got a paper manual? I still have a Msdos manual from MS.

i just cleaned out all my old drdos, msdos, win up to 2k and old nt, and a load of old apple/mac i'm just too much of a pack rat -

I saw and almost pulled out my old book on hard drives from Peter Norton recently.

memory lane is such a time killer! <g>

Another program that I found to be great for its time was Spinrite. After using it the first time my system seemed to fly, the disk was so fragmented. Now that is needed for today's disk.

my yes - steve gibson/grc - don't think he's come out with a new version since ver 6 - that was what - back in '04?

works on xp - novell - linux, haven't had occasion to try it on vista

something that has always bugged me about ms defrag is you can't tell it where you want things, or the order of 'em - under the dos norton, you could stick older files out on the edge and get it out of the way -
nowadays with fster seek times, ms feels that it's not necessary - ubt it would help fragmentation

i still tell newbies to use his sheildsup and leaktest - fast way for the newt to find out if vulnerable

Top

here, here! gedit [or maybe it's successor gledit?] let you search
for a
string through the entire file and have the option to replace any/each

central point had a nice product suite up till - oh, version 7, or so.

their early hex editor made a great compact app for cleaning crap, so to, filefix

The first windows I used was ver 2. It was nothing more than a glorified menu system at the time.
pc shell, or even norton commander was better than 2! - sync two boxes together and file swap on the fly - wasn't until 3.22 workgroups that you could do so as easily. - pctools [and commander] as bootable dos - much simpler and way more efficient, until bloat hit around '91.

symantec bought 'em both and simplicity went away...

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In article <h13el1$gbd$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, pholland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
hey r - good to see you

os2 was a whole lot more stable than any of the early windoz jlatforms - and used a fraction of the memory

you ever run the pctools desktop that was an early option vs win3?

pico wrote:
heh I might have been one of them, there folks in cali that hooked off a node
from ya'll. I ran 'the dawg house' from 85-90 then it all went to hell when I
switched to win3.1 --- but got around it by a dual boot to OS2 LOL I finally
totally gave it all up when win95 came out. I too miss dos and making those
fancy purdy colorful graphics in ansi :)

pico



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