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This might help.<br>
<br>
The latest, and possibly older ones, of gVim for Windows has 3 versions
of programs that run in DOS or a command prompt. This is from their
website.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc">http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc</a><br>
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<quote on><br>
<br>
There are three versions that run on MS-DOS or in a console window in
MS-Windows:
<dl>
<dt>16 bit DOS executable vim##d16.zip vim71d16.zip</dt>
<dd>The 16 bit DOS version is the only one that runs on old MS-DOS
systems. Only
use this if you are really desparate, because it excludes many useful
features
(such as syntax highlighting and long file names) and quickly runs out
of
memory.<br>
The last version available is 7.1. Version 7.2 and later are too big to
fit in the DOS memory model.
</dd>
<dt>32 bit DOS executable vim##d32.zip vim73_46d32.zip</dt>
<dd>The 32 bit DOS version works well on MS-Windows 95/98/ME. It
requires a DPMI
manager, which needs to be installed on MS-DOS. MS-Windows already has
one.
It supports long file names, but NOT on MS-Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7.
It is compiled with "big" features.
<br>
Not available for 7.4 and later.
</dd>
<dt>Win32 console executable vim##w32.zip vim74w32.zip</dt>
<dd>The Win32 console version works well on MS-Windows
NT/2000/XP/Vista/7. It supports long file names and is compiled with
"big" features. It does not run
perfectly well on MS-Windows 95/98/ME, especially when resizing the
console
window (this may crash MS-Windows...).
</dd>
</dl>
</quote off><br>
<br>
When I open a command prompt within Windows and type vim, something
loads pretty fast on my dual core laptop with 8 gb of ram. I don't
know which version of the program is running, probably the last one.
As I recall from using dos edit in the past, it loaded pretty fast. If
you have an extremely resource constrained system, I don't know how
well vim would work, but you could try it.<br>
<br>
As to the last part, you might be able to start a command prompt and
pipe the input and output to the rs232 port. It's not something I've
tried within the last 25 years. If I find any further data on that,
I'll forward it.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
<br>
On 9/14/2013 7:26 PM, Justin Goldberg wrote:
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cite="mid:CAAU2BpYfR30nd1-M5GQFtzmaj_WQQ3WYUwKxpHL5ToFQ7K=-ow@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Hello,
I am looking for a Windows 32-bit console mode (not DOS, 32-bit, eg:
the windows-only binaries that Visual C++ produces if you compile
"hello world") binary of the Nano editor, or a similar equivalent. I'm
looking for a replacement for DOS Edit, which loads very slowly in the
Windoze console.
Also does anyone know if there's patches for Windows 2008/2011/2012 to
use a command shell from an rs-232 serial port? I remember using a
3rd-party patch for XP.
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</blockquote>
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