Edit.com and new ATI video card

[Jerry]

I replaced my Nvidia card with an ATI 9550 Radeon series card. With
the minor side effect of changing the Acrobat Reader and MS Office
icons to the generic look I discovered that I can't use the edit.com
that is run in the command prompt. I can run the program but I am
unable to type anything in it. There is an ATI Hotkey service that
would run with the card but I have that disabled.

I've tried several versions of the video driver with no result.
Anything else I should consider?

System is Intel D845BG motherboard home built with 512 Meg RAM
OS is Windows XP Home Edition SP2 fully updated
ATI Radeon 9550 AGP video card
Clean for viruses and spyware

Thanks.

Jerry

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I replaced my Nvidia card with an ATI 9550 Radeon series card. With
the minor side effect of changing the Acrobat Reader and MS Office
icons to the generic look I discovered that I can't use the edit.com
that is run in the command prompt. I can run the program but I am
unable to type anything in it. There is an ATI Hotkey service that
would run with the card but I have that disabled.

I've tried several versions of the video driver with no result.
Anything else I should consider?

System is Intel D845BG motherboard home built with 512 Meg RAM
OS is Windows XP Home Edition SP2 fully updated
ATI Radeon 9550 AGP video card
Clean for viruses and spyware

Thanks.

Jerry

Stop using edit.com - it is a legacy 16-bit program that is only
included because some people may have built scripts around it,
same as edlin.exe. Use notepad.exe instead - it can do everything
that edit.com can, plus lots of things that edit.com cannot do.

 

[Noozer]

Stop using edit.com - it is a legacy 16-bit program that is only
included because some people may have built scripts around it,
same as edlin.exe. Use notepad.exe instead - it can do everything
that edit.com can, plus lots of things that edit.com cannot do.

I'd like to see you boot a floppy disk and use Notepad.

EDIT.COM is a great little editor for text files!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I replaced my Nvidia card with an ATI 9550 Radeon series card. With
the minor side effect of changing the Acrobat Reader and MS Office
icons to the generic look I discovered that I can't use the edit.com
that is run in the command prompt. I can run the program but I am
unable to type anything in it. There is an ATI Hotkey service that
would run with the card but I have that disabled.

I've tried several versions of the video driver with no result.
Anything else I should consider?

System is Intel D845BG motherboard home built with 512 Meg RAM
OS is Windows XP Home Edition SP2 fully updated
ATI Radeon 9550 AGP video card
Clean for viruses and spyware

Stop using edit.com - it is a legacy 16-bit program that is only
included because some people may have built scripts around it,
same as edlin.exe. Use notepad.exe instead - it can do everything
that edit.com can, plus lots of things that edit.com cannot do.

I'd like to see you boot a floppy disk and use Notepad.

EDIT.COM is a great little editor for text files!

While this is true - it was not the environment the OP was in..
In line with the OP and your comment - I would like to see you utilize the
latest ATI drivers from a boot floppy. heh

I agree with Pegasus.. In Windows XP there is no reason to use edit.com
anymore. I don't hardly use notepad anymore for editing scripts though. I
like PSPad.. http://www.pspad.com/

Might try this "edit" if you need good command-line editor replacment..
Even from a boot-floppy:
http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/gdm/edit.htm

 

[Pennywise]

|>
|>> Stop using edit.com - it is a legacy 16-bit program that is only
|>> included because some people may have built scripts around it,
|>> same as edlin.exe. Use notepad.exe instead - it can do everything
|>> that edit.com can, plus lots of things that edit.com cannot do.
|>
|>I'd like to see you boot a floppy disk and use Notepad.

|>EDIT.COM is a great little editor for text files!

Then you've never used Qedit
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/msdos/editors/qedit/
You don't need the entire zip file, Q.exe is all you need and it's
only 53K - ESC for menu.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I'd like to see you boot a floppy disk and use Notepad.

EDIT.COM is a great little editor for text files!

Great little editor? q.exe (probably the same
as qedit.exe) clocks in at half the size of edit.com
and is far more powerful. Just the right tool for a
DOS session.

While in Windows, notepad.exe is better than
either q.exe or edit.com.