MS-DOS_Editor
MS-DOS Editor
Text editor in MS-DOS and Windows 9x
MS-DOS Editor, commonly just called edit or edit.com, is a TUI text editor that comes with MS-DOS 5.0 and later,[1] as well as all 32-bit x86 versions of Windows, until Windows 11. It supersedes edlin, the standard editor in earlier versions of MS-DOS. In MS-DOS, it was a stub for QBasic running in editor mode. Starting with Windows 95, MS-DOS Editor became a standalone program because QBasic didn't ship with Windows.
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The Editor may be used as a substitute for Windows Notepad on Windows 9x, although both are limited to small files only. MS-DOS versions are limited to approximately 300 kB, depending on how much conventional memory is free.[2] The Editor can edit files that are up to 65,279 lines and up to approximately 5 MB in size.[citation needed]