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Edlin

In computing, the EDLIN line editor was the only text editor provided with MS-DOS before version 5.0 of that system, when it was superseded (but still available) by the full screen EDIT editor.

EDLIN is probably modelled after the line editors qed or ed but it is (like many things in DOS) less powerful than either of the two.

The edlin line editor was thrown together in two weeks in 1981, and was expected to have a six-month shelf life. Some industry pundits have suggested that this is the only Microsoft-written MS-DOS program that is bug-free.

Gregory Pietsch[?] has written a GPL'd clone of the edlin line editor. The clone is available for download as part of the FreeDOS project, and runs on operating systems such as Linux or Unix as well as MS-DOS.

External links:

http://www.freedos.org - The FreeDOS project
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/edline/ - The FreeDOS edlin download site
http://www.microsoft.com - Microsoft

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