Quincy Center for Technical Education
Computer Technology Department

Edlin

Starts Edlin, a line-oriented text editor with which you can create and change ASCII files.

Edlin numbers each line of the text file that is located in memory. You can use Edlin to insert, modify, copy, move, and delete lines of the file. If you want to use a full-screen editor, use the edit command.

edlin [drive:][path] filename [/b]

Parameters

[drive:][path] filename

Specifies the location and name of an ASCII file on a disk. If the file exists, Edlin opens it. If the file does not exist, Edlin creates a file in memory and uses the specified location and file name to create the file on a disk when you use the Edlin e command.

/b

Specifies that Edlin is to ignore the end-of-file character (CTRL+Z).

Edlin subcommands

Select an Edlin command to get more information.

Edlin: [line]
Edlin: A (Append)
Edlin: C (Copy)
Edlin: D (Delete)
Edlin: E (End)
Edlin: I (Insert)
Edlin: L (List)
Edlin: M (Move)
Edlin: P (Page)
Edlin: Q (Quit)
Edlin: R (Replace)
Edlin: S (Search)
Edlin: T (Transfer)
Edlin: W (Write)