{"id":2377,"date":"2021-10-28T04:36:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T04:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=2377"},"modified":"2021-10-28T04:38:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T04:38:27","slug":"editing-textfile-without-edit-com-dos-prompt","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/dos\/editing-textfile-without-editcom-dos-prompt\/17678.html","title":{"rendered":"Editing Textfile Without EDIT.COM @DOS Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am used to using EDIT.COM to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat. But I bought an old laptop that uses DOS 2.11 which has no EDIT.COM in the DOS directory!<\/p>\n<p>The only xxx.com file in the DOS directory whose filename looks like it might be a text editor is EDLIN.COM, but the \/? attribute help method for later versions of DOS does not seem to work for help on these old DOS commands.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do I see a help system on the screen for using EDLIN?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":3},"question-category":[60],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2377","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-dos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}