On Tuesday, 11-29-1994  Bill Blalock wrote to All about "Non-WP
editor" as follows:

BB> What shareware editor do you recommend for use without WP Shell?
BB> 
BB> I am looking for an emergency editor which I can use with a
BB> minimal OS/2 environment, that is full screen command line.
BB> 
BB> I plan to use it without PM / WP, to repair files when booting
BB> from diskettes.
BB> 
BB> Any suggestions for an INI fixit / editor to work in the same
BB> environment?

Hi Bill,

There is a freeware editor from IBM called TinyEd/2. It is on the Dev
Conn CD, the Hobbes CD and the BBS in the origin line of this message.
It is supplied with Warp as TEDIT.EXE. It really is tiny and runs from
the command line. I use this on my emergency restart floppies.

There is an IBM program (also on the Dev Conn CD) to edit .INI files
but it is PM and a little large for a floppy disk boot. The problem is
that the Prf...() API calls require an anchor block, which, in turn,
requires some of the PM-support .DLL's to be present. I am working on a
.INI editor, and the PM version is not a major challenge to design;
however, a text-mode version with no PM requirements could prove to be
a real hack (which I hate). You might like to build an emrgency
partition, using BOOTOS2, that includes PM support.

This brings us to the philosphical issue of whether the .INI files are
PM-related or not. I don't think they should be (even if they currently
are). I suspect the opinions within IBM will vary from mine, since it
would mean changing the design of OS/2 slightly.

Anyhow, watch this space for announcements about a .INI recovery tool.

Regards

Dave

 * KWQ/2 1.2g * Heck is a place for people who don't believe in Gosh

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