Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Text editing in DOS

Hi Rich,

Thanks for the tip. I haven't seen NC for a while.

Alan KM6VV

"Rich D." wrote:

>
> 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.