Recommended - Ultra Edit and Beyond Compare

[W1GUH]

Use those two at work all the time.

Ultra Edit is a text editor that's easy to use and has a small footprint. Come with a free trial and it's not that expensive. Use it here a lot for c/c++ code, it's also a great way to make/edit random .txt and .bat files. Has a lot of useful features.

Beyond Compare is also easy to use and has a small footprint. It, too, comes with a free trial and it's not that expensive. Use it all the time to merge new code into an existing build. It's also outsanding for backing up files (it'll compare a whole folder) and sync'ing folders. There a great and intuitive gui showing two folders and what's in each, and copying the files is EASY!

OTOH...it's very name is a bad pun! Bad sign?

[ad4mg]

Another free, and very good text editor with a relatively small footprint, capable of handling large text files, is EditPad Lite. I been using it on my Windows installations for quite a while. It also converts text files to/from the DOS (Windows) format to/from the Unix format.

http://www.editpadlite.com/

[NQ6U]

I use BBEdit myself, great for doing HTML work. There's a feature-limited free version as well, TextWrangler.

[KC2UGV]

I'm hooked on Notepad++ for my text editor (Or, vi, if it's available).

[ad4mg]

I'm hooked on Notepad++ for my text editor (Or, vi, if it's available).

What, you don't run the MS-DOS editor in DosBox?
It sports a pretty, blue screen ...

[NQ6U]

It sports a pretty, blue screen ...

So does Windows a lot of the time...

[WØTKX]

copy con:autoexec.bat
path=c:\;c:\bin'c:\utils'c:\dos
prompt=[ $p $b $d ]>>
^Z

1 File Copied

[N1LAF]

I haven't seen the blue screen of death since running XP. XP is pretty solid, despite some security issues.

At least my programs runs in windows, without having to worry about OS variants, libraries, packages, etc..
;)

[ad4mg]

I haven't seen the blue screen of death since running XP. XP is pretty solid, despite some security issues.

At least my programs runs in windows, without having to worry about OS variants, libraries, packages, etc..
;)

Blame the OS for poor package management? I've installed garbage software in Windows operating systems before ... missing DLL's, non-existent paths, etc. Damn Windows OS must be a POS, right? Wanna discuss registry errors, or "Windows Genuine Advantage" problems?

Change a motherboard on a Windows XP machine. Use the same processor. Use the same model of MB. You will spend a minimum of 30 minutes on the phone with this compassionate corporation trying to convine them that you're not a thief.

I'll take "poor package management" for $0, Alex.

[KC2UGV]

I haven't seen the blue screen of death since running XP. XP is pretty solid, despite some security issues.

At least my programs runs in windows, without having to worry about OS variants, libraries, packages, etc..
;)

That all depends on the installer package, now doesn't it...

You've never had to install .NET Framework version X?