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More info?)
sali,
Yes, some tools may work when XP is first installed. A combination of
things seem to render some of them unuseable. I.e. hardware combination,
some Windows Updates, or whatever.
If this were not true, sites like this...
Troubleshooting Windows XP, Tweaks and Fixes for Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp.htm
wouldn't have so many fixes. ;-)
In a nutshell, I don't know enough about edit.com to answer why it works on
some machines and not others.
You could try to expand EDIT.CO_ from the I386 folder on the XP CD to
WINDOWS\system32\edit.com
Sorry I wasn't more help.
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:eLCC94CKFHA.3420@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
sali <gabor.salai@tel.net.ba> hunted and pecked:
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:u5vMSNCKFHA.4056@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> edit.com is the MS-DOS Editor not edit.exe. Edit.com is a text
>> editor used to create and edit ASCII text files.
>>
>> [[Windows XP does not use this command. It is accepted only for
>> compatibility with MS-DOS files.]]
>>
>
>
> yes, it is .com not .exe [hidden extension, sorry]
>
> yes, it is compatibility tool, and is highly obsolete.
>
> but question is why it doesn't work on some xp computers when
> delivered through standard installation?
> it is not usual to distribute tools that are not usable at all!
> on some computers edit simply not recognizes keystroke!
> is it expectable?
> what is the reason to deliver tool that are not fully operational?
>
> is there some neccessary tweakings to improve it?
> is there some hopeless mb/bios/chipset conflict?
>
> i have few old 16bit apps that sometimes [on some xp computers] behave
> the same like mentioned edit.com [not responding properly to
> keypress], so hoped to recovering functionality of edit.com also
> recover
> their functionality, or at least find the reason why they fail.
>
> any help, please?
>
>
>
>>
>> In news:%23ApGVqAKFHA.1308@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
>> sali <gabor.salai@tel.net.ba> hunted and pecked:
>>> there are few command line utilities that come with xp,
>>> one of them is old "edit.exe".
>>> but on some computers it is not operable: it does not
>>> reacts on some keystrokes, or shows wrong characters.
>>>
>>> on some other computers, it [edit.exe] works perfectly under xp!
>>>
>>> since edit.exe comes with oem xp preinstalled, it is strange that
>>> doesn't work
>>> on some computers [it is true that notepad is better, but i
>>> sometimes need exactly edit.exe]
>>>
>>> is there some common tweak to make edit.exe work on every xp
>>> computer?