Comments on: Microsoft Editor https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/ Fun with Virtualization Sun, 06 Aug 2023 08:36:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-238129 Fri, 27 Dec 2019 01:56:15 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8226#comment-238129 In reply to Malcolm.

the MSPL I have on there was from version 1.3, which I put onto archive.org.

I need to dump the 1.1 that is floating around, as it has Windows 2.0 API stuff!

I believe the rest of the CD is the same, but diff is the best way to tell.

]]> By: Malcolm https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-238123 Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:06:32 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8226#comment-238123 I might have missed it in the links, but I think Neozeed has a slightly newer version of the documentation for M/MEP/Z in his gopher site than the documentation I saw in this page…

gopher://gopher.superglobalmegacorp.com:70/00/mspl/common/msedit

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-237211 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 06:12:52 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8226#comment-237211 I just installed Watcom 10.6 on a machine, and sure enough MEP from 7/11/1995 is included. It’s tagged version 3.51.1016.1 which means it’s from the NT 3.51 SDK.

So yeah Watcom put it on their CD-ROM’s!

]]> By: tenox https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-230812 Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:20:04 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8226#comment-230812 In reply to Malcolm.

I found two different tools.ini for mep and z, the one for z also includes [mep] section inside

]]> By: john https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-226613 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 02:02:25 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8226#comment-226613 turns out mep-x86.exe works fine…It doesn’t freeze when an unrecognized Fkey is pressed like z-x86 does…Just thought I would add this…

]]> By: John https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-226514 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:40:26 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8226#comment-226514 Thanks – I figured out what I was doing wrong – the manual says to use [Z] in tools.ini as the header – that only works if the binary is named Z.exe. I renamed the binary so then tools didn’t work. Once I realized my mistake, everything was fine with one BIG exception:

If I enter a F-key that is not defined, Z freezes – it says to enter any key to continue, but that fails completely. Try entering F5 and see what happens.

I am using the 32-bit version of Z (z-x86.exe) posted on GitHub and O/S Windows 10 32 bit…Any ideas here? Maybe I should switch to the SDK 2000 version?

]]> By: Malcolm https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-225028 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:54:02 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8226#comment-225028 In reply to John.

There’s a simple tools.ini in the SDK. Unfortunately it looks like MEP is infinitely flexible so the bundled .INI file doesn’t really do justice to what it can do.

https://archive.org/download/Microsoft_Developer_Network_Developer_Platform_Disk_2_of_3_Win32_SDK_1995/Microsoft%20Developer%20Network%20Developer%20Platform%20Disk%202%20of%203%20%28Win32%20SDK%29%20%281995%29.ISO/WIN32SDK%2FMSTOOLS%2FINIT%2FTOOLS.INI

]]> By: John https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-224269 Tue, 10 Sep 2019 17:33:43 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8226#comment-224269 Do you have a sample copy of TOOLS.INI for the Z editor?

]]> By: Jack https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-203519 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:29:07 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8226#comment-203519 I did not know their early version of Microsoft Editor. This version earlier than Microsoft Editor from MS-DOS 5.00.224 Beta release in June 1990.

]]> By: Federico Bianchi https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/03/11/microsoft-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-192538 Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:42:10 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8226#comment-192538 I was refering to the “MS-OS/2 2.0” subsystem code in OpenNT.

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