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- DOS5ED.EXE
- by Allan Zachary
- San Antonio, Tx
-
- Put into the
- Public Domain
- June 24, 1991
-
- DOS5ED is a program designed solely to patch a copy of the MS DOS 5.0
- editor allowing it to list *ALL* of the files in the current directory
- instead of just files with the .TXT extender by default when you select
- 'Open' from the file menu. QBASIC.EXE serves as both a general purpose
- text editor and a BASIC interpreter for DOS 5.0, and the modification is
- performed on a copy of your original. DOS5ED must be executed in the
- same directory that QBASIC.EXE resides in (usually C:\DOS). Here is
- what happens when you execute DOS5ED.EXE:
-
- 1. Display a brief summary of DOS5ED's purpose.
- 2. Ask the user if she/he would like to continue or abort.
- 3. If the ENTER key is hit:
- A. See if QBASIC.EXE exists in the current directory.
- a. If QBASIC.EXE is not found, notify user & quit.
- B. Rename QBASIC.EXE as QBASIC.BAK.
- C. Copy QBASIC.BAK to QBASIC.EXE.
- D. Search for "*.TXT" in the new QBASIC.EXE
- a. If its not found notify the user,
- delete the copy of QBASIC.EXE &
- restore the original.
- E. If found replace "*.TXT" with "*.*" (wildcards)
- & notify user of success.
- 4. If any other key is hit, abort.
-
- To test it, simply type 'EDIT' at the DOS prompt, (or choose edit from
- the shell) and select "Open" from the file menu. You should now be able to
- see all of the files in the current directory within the file selector box.
- The BASIC interpreter function of the editor is unaffected by the patch.
-
- DOS5ED was written in MS QuickBasic 4.5 using routines from Crescent
- Software's Quickpak Professional Library.
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- DOS5ED has been thoroughly tested, however, users of the DOS5ED editor patch
- utility must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
-
- "DOS5ED is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties,
- expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties
- of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes
- no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result
- from the use of DOS5ED."
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