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What is dos editor?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

DOS editor "edit.exe" was the old DOS version of notepad, it was the only way in the DOS days to edit a text file, all files with a .txt extension, DOS stand for Disc Operating System, that was long before windows, it was developed to make the use of a floppy disc possible and later the hard disk and before DOS computers worked on a system called CPM, at first CPM systems data was stored on a roll of paper tape, when you type on the keyboard, it will punch holes in the tape in binary code, that is 8 holes over the width of the tape, each row of holes was one character the spaces between the holes was read as zeros and the holes ones.

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