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How to open text and exe in dos?
Name: Zachery Date: March 6, 2002 at 07:33:38 Pacific
Comment:
What is the command for opening a program? Like and .exe or a .txt? Also what is the command for the basic dos text editor? Thanks- A newbie
.EXE files cannot be edited by a Text Editoe as they are in machine code and best left alone unless you know what you are doing.
Later versions of MS-DOS have a Text editor called EDIT To open a file type:
EDIT filename.txt
(Change FILENAME.TXT to file that needs to be opened)
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Response Number 2
Name: fred6008 Date: March 10, 2002 at 04:11:42 Pacific
Reply:
.exe files can also be .COM or even .BAT files. They are files the computer runs. In each case you type the file name and press enter to run the file. Take EDIT.COM since it was mentioned. You type EDIT to run the .COM file. you also have to enter a filename to edit such as EDIT CONFIG.SYS for example. Or you might enter EDIT README.TXT to read a text file in the editor. However, if you type anything you will change the README file, so it is better to use a file reading command if you have such a utility.
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