Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Text editing in DOS

Alan, et al,
Norton Commander is/was a very useful sorting/editing/viewing file ap.
I make sure it's loaded on my machines. Don't know if it's still avail.
Can be autoloaded in autoexec.bat and recalled from any command line.
Rich D.

Alan Marconett KM6VV wrote:

>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Sounds like a useful utility, I haven't heard of anyone doing it yet.
> Wouldn't be too hard to write. I have a small editor, but it only works
> on a memory buffer, so the file size would be limited. Actually, I
> tried writing a browser (?) for navigating directories and finding
> files, I suppose one could display the "first line of text", without too
> much problem (one file at a time). But I still have the 64K file size
> limit... :>(
>
> One could write a command line (DOS) program to read all the files in a
> directory with a wildcard parameter ("PART??.CNC"), and generate output
> (for a pipe '>'), that would be the file name and "first line" as you
> suggest. Is that what you're looking for?
>
> Alan KM6VV
>
> Tom Eldredge wrote:
> >
> > Gentlemen,
> >
> > I am looking for a DOS program which will allow my GCode text files to be
> > "browsed". I remember when DBASE II first came out, their brouse command
> > would allow one to scan up and down through a file. In this case, I would
> > like to be able to browse through a DOS subdirectory, and have the file name
> > displayed on the left, and the first line of text of the file displayed on
> > the same line as the file name, so that I can see the comment I put at the
> > beginning of the file (to see what the G Code file was used for. After a
> > while, I forget what the eight character file name means. Is there some
> > utility which will allow this to be done, or is this a feature that can only
> > be programmed inside an application?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tom E.

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