I ran across a program in WP 6.0 DOS which doesn't seem to be documented
(at least, I couldn't find it in the Word Perfect 6.0 Reference Manual).
  It calls itself the Word Perfect Office Editor, Version 3.1, and despite
a rather, uh, spartan user interface, it is quite a flexible editor -- it
edits any macros whose .MRS files it can find and understand; DOS text
files; and binary (hex) files.  Its "search" and "search and replace"
string functions allow the use of "wild cards" for either single
characters or arbitrary strings delimited by the Line Feed character.  It
also accepts large files, though on my primitive machine, it nearly choked
on a 10 & 1/2 MB text file I fed it.  It was REAL slow dealing with that
monster!  For files under 1/2 MB it's pretty quick though.  It also has
block functions, a block buffer, and up to 9 file buffers.
  The only way I was able to figure out how to use the thing was, by
invoking it, pressing function keys, and seeing what happened.  Once I
found which key was Help (F3), I pressed every other function key
combination I could think of, and got terse descriptions of all the
other functions (usually the function keys are the same as for Word
Perfect 6.0 DOS, not too surprisingly).
  Anyhow, I've found it quite useful for fixing up text files that were
zipped on a UNIX box, downloaded, and unzipped on a DOS machine.  Such
files lack the CR chars at the end of lines, and are often too big to load
into DOS EDIT (which will insert "missing" CR's automatically).  Sometimes
the files have a bunch of Backspace chars used in screen output on UNIX.
The "wild card" string search and replace makes quick work of the
offending strings.
  It seems ED.EXE may be a "root" editor for Word Perfect products of that
vintage, but that's just a guess.  Given that it's bundled in with WP 60
DOS, why isn't it mentioned in the WP reference manual?
--- GEcho 1.02+ KCME
---------------