The EDLINline editor was the only text editor provided with MS-DOS before version 5.0 of that system, when it was superseded by the full screen EDIT editor (but still remained available). EDLIN is still available in Microsoft Windows operating systems up to and including at least Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.
EDLIN is probably modelled after the line editors qed or ed but it is seen by some to be less powerful than either of the two.
The Edlin line editor was created in two weeks in 1980, and was expected to have a six-month shelf life. [1] (http://www.patersontech.com/Dos/Byte/History.html) Some industry pundits have suggested that this is the only Microsoft-written MS-DOS program that is bug-free; this is entirely false, however, as Seattle Computer Products, not Microsoft, wrote EDLIN.
Gregory Pietsch has written a GPL'd clone of the edlin line editor. The clone is available for download as part of the FreeDOS project, and runs on operating systems such as Linux or Unix as well as MS-DOS. The clone's outputted messages can also be customized for a variety of European languages and can be compiled with a variety of C compilers.
The EDLINline editor was the only text editor provided with MS-DOS before version 5.0 of that system, when it was superseded by the full screen EDIT editor (but still remained available).
The EDLINline editor was the only text editor provided with MS-DOS before version 5.0 of that system, when it was superseded by the full screen EDIT editor (but remained available).
The Edlinline editor was created by Tim Paterson in two weeks in 1980, and was expected to have a six-month shelf life.
Ironically, Edlin was actually originally written for Seattle Computer Products's QDOS, which only later got bought by Microsoft in order to become MS-DOS.
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