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From: Philip Taylor <philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Dead or alive...
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In article <tqo5899ri81r81@corp.supernews.com>,
anonymous@bogus_address.con writes

>And when you've exited to the Win-Doze pseudo-'DOS'
>prompt, you're no longer in Win-Doze, per se.  Even
>though the Win-Doze kernel is still in control,
>you're now in Virtual 86 mode.
>
>And for purposes of ASCII art, V-86 mode is better
>than being in the Win-Doze pointee-clickee gooey.
>At least you have access to the =real= 80 x 25 text-
>mode characters.
>
>So if you don't have a genuine real-mode O.S. in-
>stalled on your computer, Virtual 86 mode is the
>next-best option.
>
>From there, you can run a simple DOS-based text
>editor (such as the freeware TED.COM program) to
>create your ASCII art.

I have Win98, but use Norton Commander (from 1989) (in 80x40(?)
character mode) for almost everything (although unfortunately I have to
use the DOS 'copy' command to copy with long filenames) and EDIT for
file-editing (much better than horrible Notepad -- indent/outdent blocks
of text, automatic indenting of new lines, 9 files open at once, etc...)

It's just a lot quicker than Windows -- going from 4 directories down
back to the root directory took 7.58 seconds in Windows and 1.19 seconds
in Norton Commander. To edit a file with NC, I just select it and press
F4. To view a file in hex mode, I just use F3 then F4. It's much more
efficient than Windows (shift, right click, wait, open with, wait, wait
more, notepad, wait...), which is why I'm still using the 12-year old
program :-)

-- 
Philip Taylor
philip @ zaynar . demon . co . uk

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