The EDLIN line editor, editing, listing and creating files using EDLIN

Abstract

In this lesson you will learn to:

• * use the EDLIN line editor

• * create and edit files using EDLIN

This lesson is about the use of the DOS line editor, EDLIN.EXE or EDLIN.COM, and you are going to use it to edit the file called NAMES.TXT that is in the directory called CCC on your practice disk. EDLIN can be used to edit any file that contains ASCII characters only. You can it use it to edit system files.