If you'd told me 25 years ago that a large percentage of my day to day paid job would be dropping to DOS and editing files using edit - yes, EDIT.COM - I'd have...
... well, probably not thought much odd about it, actually. That was normal.
@Momentrabbit Ooo, it's been such a long time since I've gotten to use good old edit. The "new" one that came with Windows 95, or the old DOS one that just called qbasic?
@Mycroft Oh, the old one. Our cutting laser is controlled by ISA-based hardware running off a Pentium, real DOS based VGA software - some flavour of 5, I think.. We don't emulate the 80s, we're *stuck* there. XD
@Momentrabbit If it's permissible, you can grab the edit.exe out of Windows 95/98 and use that at least as far back as DOS 5. It's a bit slicker, faster, and I believe handles higher character count files. It can also have multiple files open simultaneously and fast switch between them, but I'm not sure if the old qbasic-based one did that too.
@Momentrabbit Yes.