[arachne] Re: XE

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Glenn McCorkle wrote: 
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:19:14 -0500, Jason Dodd wrote:

I might be the only here who uses xe but just
in case I'm not, a while back I asked if
someone would compile xe in dos. Someone
replied the binary works. My concern was that
the dos version is very old. I just installed
freedos and the newest gcc version of xe
works with the default freedos installation
with no problems.


Why did you want a new version for DOS ?

Is there some feature in the new version for Linux
which the older DOS version lacks ?
Actually, there are quite a few improvements that make the newer versions closer to the mainframe editor, it seems faster, et al. These changes are in the windows versions, too. As far as I can tell the features of the same version number are the same for all the platforms unless required to be different due to the fact it's on a different platform. The newest DOS version is 1.13b <http://www.geocities.jp/sakachin2/XED113B.LZH> whereas the newest GCC version is 1.22 <http://www.geocities.jp/sakachin2/XEGCC122.ZIP>. Since the DOS version was lagging behind the others I asked the author Sarachin(I think that's his name), if he was going to update it. He said probably not because of resource limitations in DOS machines. I thought that meant I'd be stuck using 1.13 or have to compile the gcc version. But the gcc version is compiled and happens to work in freedos. The funny thing(to me anyway), is the gcc version has a folder labeled *dos* inside it that contains what appear to be dos versions of the programs but they don't work. So I'm not sure really what's the difference between the dos version and the gcc version.

Doesn't really matter to me since the gcc version 1.22 works fine in freedos and that's what I was looking for. But I think I'll ask him what the difference is anyway.

What are the changes? I think there were some little things like changes in the help docs, fixes to the ini file, somegui fixes(not applicable here), etc. But the things that I liked the most are the change to caps lock so that it's more like the mainframe caps lock and the removal of the 999 limit on the delete command. Nothing super big but since I've got 12+ years behind me of using both of those they seem to click in automagically when I'm in an spf editor and it's nice to have it work the way I'm used to.

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