| NOTE: These are DOS and W31 EDITORS not word processors. To configure, write batch files, create compiler and assembler source code, and do other maintenance for an OS we need an editor that will save the text in ASCII format and add no formatting codes to the text. MSDOS EDIT.EXE isn't terrible to use but older versions of MSDOS didn't have that utility and some don't like it (me). If it's a word processor that you want/need then try this FTP search using freewareweb.com and look for the filename Wd55d.zip at 4.5 meg in size. That should be Microsoft Word for DOS v5.5 and then continue (next) on this page if you need printer drivers (many for Lexmark printers I noticed). Enjoy! If you need to read MSWord 97/2000 documents get the free Viewer for W31 from Microsoft.
| - Freeware & Shareware Downloads
- QEDIT3C.EXE © - QEDIT the macro editor is the DOS ascii text editor.
- QED.EXE © - Small DOS editor, not QEDIT the macro editor but a useful/small foot print utility.
- TEDPLUS.COM - PC Mag DOS 'Tiny Editor' with find function and other new functions in this update.
- MEDIT.EXE © - Macro DOS editor comparable to QEDIT.
- JOE.EXE - Macro DOS editor comparable to QEDIT (freeware). Add 'ispell' as your spell checker for JOE.
- PFE.EXE - Win3x `Programmer's File Editor' opens multiple large text files. Extensive tookit. Quite popular with W31 users. There is an option to put those tabs at the bottom for each file that I like so very much too!
- ELVIS v1.8 - DOS clone of the VI *nix editor. This is the one recommended to me by professionals who use VI on UNIX at work and need a good port of VI for their home computer.
- VDE - Eric Meyer - VDE is a small, fast text editor and word processor that is surprisingly powerful and customizable. It runs under DOSes and DOS shells, including DesqVIEW (which it recognizes) and Windows 3.x/9x/Me/NT/2000/XP. It can read and edit files in a variety of formats: ASCII, ANSI, Wordstar, WordPerfect, XYWrite, Word and others. VDE runs even on older PCs, including XTs, and supports the HP LX series palmtops. With the release on 4 Dec 2002 of version 1.93D, VDE is no longer a shareware program, but is now freeware. VDE remains copyrighted by its author, but users no longer need pay any registration / licensing fees.
- NOTESPAD - I know, you hear about these replacements for NOTEPAD all the time. This one opens multiple files with tabs at the bottom of it's window to flip them. Very handy feature. Does macros and other things but the tabs really hooked me. Drop in replacement after you rename it to NOTEPAD.EXE. (220K archive)
- XPDF - Not an editor, but a converter of Adobe PDF files to normal text. Versions for DOS, Win32, Solaris, and Linux at this server in this same directory.
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