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Why There Is No MS-DOS Editor In Win7 X64?

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There is no dos text editor in win7 – 64 bit… Why so?..
When i type edit in the cmd window ,the command is not found….
Can any one suggest me any text editor that is dos based..!!?????

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    1. There is no DOS text editor in 64 bit Windows 7 because there is no DOS. The command line is not DOS. The edit command found in 32 bit systems runs under the 16 bit subsystem which does not exist (and cannot run) in 64 bit Windows.
      I expect there are console based editors but I don’t know of any.

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    2. Windows 7 64bit doesn’t support any more legacy DOS applications and commands so they are removed as the legacy DOS-like editor Edit. Be aware the command prompt is the NT system console since Windows has no DOS at all since Windows 2000. To run legacy DOS applications under Win 7 64bit a virtual machine is needed as MS Virtual PC or VirtualBox.
      Notepad is the native text editor and you can find fancy third party versions of this tool.

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    3. Here are programs from my database that may suit, even if they are not marked 64bit, they are worth a try.

      TCC/LE
      http://www.softpedia.com/get/Deskto…
      http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen…
      http://jpsoft.com/tccledes.htm
      Download 64-bit version.
      http://jpsoft.com/downloads/v13/tcc…

      Mined
      http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office…
      http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen…
      http://towo.net/mined/

      VDE
      http://sites.google.com/site/vdeedi…
      Manual
      http://sites.google.com/site/vdeedi…

      TreePad Lite
      http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office…
      http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen…
      http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreew…
      TreePad Lite Manuals
      The official TreePad Lite manuals (online and downloadable) can be found here.
      http://www.treepad.com/docs/tplite/
      The Quick Start Guide can be found here.
      http://www.treepad.com/docs/quickst…
      Windows 7, XP, Vista, 2000, 98, NT, all 64 bit editions of Windows and Linux/Wine.

      F Notepad
      http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office…
      http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen…
      http://fualt.tk/f_notepad.php

      AkelPad
      http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office…
      http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen…
      http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/file…
      http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/
      Portable AkelPad
      http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTAB…

      EditPad Lite
      http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office…
      http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen…
      http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadli…

      PSPad editor
      http://www.softpedia.com/get/Progra…
      http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen…
      http://news.softpedia.com/news/Don-…
      http://www.pspad.com/
      PSPad editor extensions ( 3 pages )
      http://www.pspad.com/en/pspad-exten…
      ยท installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,…

      Portable PlainEdit
      http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTAB…
      http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen…
      http://www.gaijin.at/dlplainedit.php
      http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?h…

      MadEdit
      http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office…
      http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen…
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/mad…

      Here are some links that may interest.

      http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread….

      http://www.thewindowsclub.com/the-h…

      http://www.techsupportalert.com/bes…

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