Dieter, at 12:02 on Jul 26 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

PN> On its own Qedit will handle 550K, as long as you haven't used too much
PN> memory with TSR's etc.

BG> Oh really?  My version of Qedit can handle files of up to (and maybe
BG> even in excess of) 16Mb.  Of course, it IS the commercial OS/2
BG> version...  :) 

DM> Where did you get it from ? Direct from Semware ? 

Er, not quite.  Mine is actually an "unofficial evaluation version".  :)

I forget exactly who gave it to me now, but I seem to recall that it was
originally downloaded from a high-security local pirate board (not by me).

DM> And did it include the DOS version as well ?

Mine didn't, but I dunno about the original distribution disks.  According
to the README contained in the archive I received, I believe it was meant
to.  

Sorry for the verbosity of the following, but I interpret it as stating
that both the DOS and OS/2 versions are supplied together.

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I    CONTENTS OF QEDIT V3.0 FOR OS/2 DISTRIBUTION DISK
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Note:  All of the executables (.EXE) in this section are OS/2 executables.

File            Description
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Q.EXE           The editor program.  This is the only file required to run
                QEdit v3.0 for OS/2.
QCONFIG.EXE     The configuration program.
QCONFIG.DAT     The standard Keyboard Definition File.
QHELP.TXT       The standard Help text.
READ.ME         The file you are currently reading.
SEMWARE.LEX     The standard word list (compressed).
USER.LEX        The user-built word list (not compressed).

Keyboard Definition Files for the following editors are provided:

QCONFIG.B       Brief 2.1
QCONFIG.NE      Norton Editor 1.3
QCONFIG.PE2     PE II
QCONFIG.WP      WordPerfect 5
QCONFIG.WS      WordStar 3.3 / SideKick 1.5

  Help files for the above:

QHELP.NE
QHELP.PE2
QHELP.WP
QHELP.WS

Utilities:

QUPDATE.EXE     Copies the configuration information from previous QEdit
                versions to QEdit v3.0.
QMAC.EXE        Macro translator for QEdit.
MACROS.TXT      Sample macros for use with QEdit.
KBFAST.EXE      Program to speed up the OS/2 keyboard response time.


QEdit Advanced 3.0 DOS-Specific Files
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Note: All of the executables (.EXE and .COM) listed in this section are DOS
only executables.

Q.EXE           The editor program.  This is the only file required to run
                QEdit Advanced v3.0 for DOS.
QCONFIG.EXE     The configuration program.
QSPELL.OVL      The spelling checker overlay file.
QUPDATE.EXE     Copies the configuration information from previous QEdit
                versions to QEdit v3.0.
QDISK.EXE       Run QDISK to obtain the amount of available memory and space
                on the current drive.
SHOWKEY.EXE     Displays the scancode for extended keys.
CHUNKER.EXE     Splits large files into chunks for editing by QEdit. Will
                also merge these chunks back into a single file.
ATKYFAST.COM    This program will speed up the keyboard response time on AT
                and 386 style computers.  It is NOT a TSR.  Just type
                ATKYFAST.  Note that this program will not work on all
                clones, but it will not cause any problems on them either.
QMAC.EXE        Macro translator for QEdit.
QCP.EXE         QEdit compiler helper program.
QCP.DOC         QEdit compiler helper program documentation.
QCP.DAT         A configuration file for QCP.
QCP.TXT         A sample QEdit macro for using with QCP.

The following files are courtesy of Jerry Houston.

QM.COM          Mouse driver for QEdit Advanced.
QM.DOC          Mouse driver documentation.

Notes
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The ONLY file required to run QEdit is Q.EXE - the others are not required
by the program.

The QEdit Advanced 3.0 for DOS files are stored in the DOS subdirectory of
the directory where the QEdit 3.0 for OS/2 files were installed.

The configuration data files (qconfig.??? and qhelp.???), sample macros
(macros.txt) and spelling checker word-lists (semware.lex, user.lex) are the
same for the OS/2 and DOS versions of QEdit; therefore, only one copy of
these files is supplied, in the QEdit for OS/2 subdirectory.

To use semware.lex with the DOS version of QEdit, either copy it to the
directory where the DOS QEdit is installed, or set the configuration option
"Full Path to QEdit files" to the directory where the word-list is stored.
See pages 42 and 55 in the QEdit Reference manual for additional details.
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Note the inclusion of a spelling-checker at long last?  There are several
other new and useful features, but I refrained from wasting bandwidth by
posting them here.  Dunno what it costs, but it's a superb editor, and
worth every cent.  :)

Regards, Bill
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