T (A Tiny Editor)

Version: 
2.20b
Release date: 
Thursday, 3 March, 1994

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T, a very small yet very powerful full screen text editor for IBM PC, PS/2 and compatible machines.

T is a full screen text editor for the IBM PC, PS/2 and compatible family of machines. Two versions of the editor are supplied, one to run under DOS and the other to run under OS/2. It is designed to be quick and easy to learn and simple to use, while remaining both extremely powerful and very small - the DOS version being under 10,000 bytes in size.

A very small editor has a number of advantages:

It may be used on machines with a limited amount of memory. Even a PC with a full 640K of base memory can have a large amount of this used up when a number of terminate-and-stay-resident type programs are installed, local area network drivers and terminal emulators are prime examples.

  • It may be used for editing large files that would be too large to load into memory with a bigger editor.
  • It may be invoked from inside other programs yet still have enough free memory to edit a good sized file.
  • It loads and starts very quickly indeed. If you just wish to make a small change to your CONFIG.SYS file it can be very frustrating to spend time waiting for a large word processor to start up.
  • It can be placed on a diskette without consuming much space. This can be useful for those "emergency" diskettes used to boot up and fix a system when all else fails.
  • It can be placed on a RAM disk without consuming much space. This can be useful for palmtop type machines which often have no disk drives at all.

 

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

T (A Tiny Editor) v. 2.20b (3/3/1994, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) Readme/What's new
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1987, 1993 T v2.20 - A Tiny Editor ======================= Changes From Previous Version ----------------------------- The major change between the previous version (v2.00) and this version (v2.20) is the support for editing lines longer than 256 characters; lines may now be up to 65,528 characters long. This is particularly useful with OS/2, where lines in CONFIG.SYS are often longer than 256 characters. Also please note there is a change to the operation of the MARK RIGHT and MARK LEFT functions and there are a few changes in the custom definition file syntax, to provide improved readability and consistency. Introduction ------------ There are times even in today's world of multi-megabyte personal computers when a quick, simple and small text editor is of benefit. With a .EXE file of less than 10,000 bytes T is designed to fit that role. For the DOS user trying to cram more and more into 640K the advantages of small size are obvious, for the OS/2 user the speed and ability to run when even Presentation Manager is unavailable may prove just as useful. This document gives a very brief introduction to the Tiny Editor. Refer to the full documentation in T.DOC for all the details of the editor's commands and keyboard functions. T.DOC also describes how T may be customised to suit individual preferences for things like screen colours and keyboard layouts. Installation ------------ The only file required to use T is the single executable: T.EXE for DOS or T2.EXE for OS/2. This should be placed in the current directory or in a subdirectory listed in the PATH. The help file THELP.HLP gives a summary of the editor's features. It may be useful to have this available the first few times T is used. Pressing the F1 help key will attempt to load and show this help file. Simple Editing -------------- To start the editor just enter the command T from a DOS prompt or T2 from an OS/2 prompt. This command can be followed by any number of filenames which will be loaded ready for editing. If no filenames are given a new empty file will be created. The cursor starts on the editor's command line (the third line up from the bottom). Any valid T command may be entered on the command line and is executed when the Enter key is pressed. Some valid commands include: EDIT - To load a new file into the editor. FILE - To write the currently displayed file back to disk. PRINT - To print the currently displayed file. DOS - To run a DOS or OS/2 command. The cursor can be moved between the command line and the file's data area by pressing the Esc key. In the data area it can be moved anywhere between the "Top of File" and "End of File" markers. At any point new text can be entered or the existing text changed. To add a new line press Ctrl-Enter and to delete a line press Ctrl-Backspace. One or more lines can be marked by pressing Alt-L on the first and last lines of the block to be marked. Marked lines can be moved by pressing Alt-M, copied with Alt-C or deleted with Alt-D. The current line can be repeated with Alt-R, split at the cursor position with Alt-S and joined with the following line with Alt-J. If more than one file is being edited at once the "ring" of files can be cycled around by pressing F10 or F11. Editing several files at once is particularly useful in conjunction with marked lines, as lines from one file can be moved or copied into a different file. When all the required changes have been made the file can be written back to disk by pressing F2 and quitted with F3. Alternatively F4 will perform both these actions in one go. If you decide to abandon all the changes made just press F3 and answer the question "Throw away changes?" with a "y". To search for a particular piece of text, switch onto the command line and enter the command: /text T will search from the current cursor position forwards to find the next occurrence of the "text". Normally T requires an exact-case match (i.e. it would not find TEXT or even Text); to force an any-case match add a "c" option to the command like this: /text/c To do a search and replace, again switch onto the command line and this time use the command: c/this/that This will find the next occurrence of "this" and ask a question "Yes/No/Go/Last/Quit?". Respond with a Y, N, G, L or Q as required: Yes - to change "this" to "that" and search for the next "this". No - to not make the change, but continue the search for the next "this". Go - to make this change and all subsequent changes up to the end of the file without further prompting. Last - to make this change and to stop searching. Quit - to not make this change and to stop searching. To make all the changes straightaway, without prompting add the "*" option to the change command like so: c/this/that/* Customisation ------------- T may be customised to change the colours, keyboard assignments and one or two other settings. Take a look at the TKEYS.DEF file which describes the standard configuration. If you want to alter it, make a copy of TKEYS.DEF and edit it to reflect your required changes. Then run the TKEY.EXE customiser program to update the editor, like this: TKEY TKEYS.DEF T.EXE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- by: Tim Baldwin IBM UK Laboratories Ltd. Hursley Park Winchester, Hampshire, England. Internet: baldy@vnet.ibm.com October 1993
 ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/os2_ews/tinyed220b.zip  local copy
T (A Tiny Editor) v. 2.20 (1/12/1993, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) Readme/What's new
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1987, 1993 T v2.20 - A Tiny Editor ======================= Changes From Previous Version ----------------------------- The major change between the previous version (v2.00) and this version (v2.20) is the support for editing lines longer than 256 characters; lines may now be up to 65,528 characters long. This is particularly useful with OS/2, where lines in CONFIG.SYS are often longer than 256 characters. Also please note there is a change to the operation of the MARK RIGHT and MARK LEFT functions and there are a few changes in the custom definition file syntax, to provide improved readability and consistency. Introduction ------------ There are times even in today's world of multi-megabyte personal computers when a quick, simple and small text editor is of benefit. With a .EXE file of less than 10,000 bytes T is designed to fit that role. For the DOS user trying to cram more and more into 640K the advantages of small size are obvious, for the OS/2 user the speed and ability to run when even Presentation Manager is unavailable may prove just as useful. This document gives a very brief introduction to the Tiny Editor. Refer to the full documentation in T.DOC for all the details of the editor's commands and keyboard functions. T.DOC also describes how T may be customised to suit individual preferences for things like screen colours and keyboard layouts. Installation ------------ The only file required to use T is the single executable: T.EXE for DOS or T2.EXE for OS/2. This should be placed in the current directory or in a subdirectory listed in the PATH. The help file THELP.HLP gives a summary of the editor's features. It may be useful to have this available the first few times T is used. Pressing the F1 help key will attempt to load and show this help file. Simple Editing -------------- To start the editor just enter the command T from a DOS prompt or T2 from an OS/2 prompt. This command can be followed by any number of filenames which will be loaded ready for editing. If no filenames are given a new empty file will be created. The cursor starts on the editor's command line (the third line up from the bottom). Any valid T command may be entered on the command line and is executed when the Enter key is pressed. Some valid commands include: EDIT - To load a new file into the editor. FILE - To write the currently displayed file back to disk. PRINT - To print the currently displayed file. DOS - To run a DOS or OS/2 command. The cursor can be moved between the command line and the file's data area by pressing the Esc key. In the data area it can be moved anywhere between the "Top of File" and "End of File" markers. At any point new text can be entered or the existing text changed. To add a new line press Ctrl-Enter and to delete a line press Ctrl-Backspace. One or more lines can be marked by pressing Alt-L on the first and last lines of the block to be marked. Marked lines can be moved by pressing Alt-M, copied with Alt-C or deleted with Alt-D. The current line can be repeated with Alt-R, split at the cursor position with Alt-S and joined with the following line with Alt-J. If more than one file is being edited at once the "ring" of files can be cycled around by pressing F10 or F11. Editing several files at once is particularly useful in conjunction with marked lines, as lines from one file can be moved or copied into a different file. When all the required changes have been made the file can be written back to disk by pressing F2 and quitted with F3. Alternatively F4 will perform both these actions in one go. If you decide to abandon all the changes made just press F3 and answer the question "Throw away changes?" with a "y". To search for a particular piece of text, switch onto the command line and enter the command: /text T will search from the current cursor position forwards to find the next occurrence of the "text". Normally T requires an exact-case match (i.e. it would not find TEXT or even Text); to force an any-case match add a "c" option to the command like this: /text/c To do a search and replace, again switch onto the command line and this time use the command: c/this/that This will find the next occurrence of "this" and ask a question "Yes/No/Go/Last/Quit?". Respond with a Y, N, G, L or Q as required: Yes - to change "this" to "that" and search for the next "this". No - to not make the change, but continue the search for the next "this". Go - to make this change and all subsequent changes up to the end of the file without further prompting. Last - to make this change and to stop searching. Quit - to not make this change and to stop searching. To make all the changes straightaway, without prompting add the "*" option to the change command like so: c/this/that/* Customisation ------------- T may be customised to change the colours, keyboard assignments and one or two other settings. Take a look at the TKEYS.DEF file which describes the standard configuration. If you want to alter it, make a copy of TKEYS.DEF and edit it to reflect your required changes. Then run the TKEY.EXE customiser program to update the editor, like this: TKEY TKEYS.DEF T.EXE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- by: Tim Baldwin IBM UK Laboratories Ltd. Hursley Park Winchester, Hampshire, England. Internet: baldy@vnet.ibm.com October 1993
 hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/editors/tinyed.zip
T (A Tiny Editor) v. 2.20a (1/12/1993, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) Readme/What's new
TINYED is a very small, very simple yet very powerful full screen text editor, provided in both a DOS and an OS/2 version. It is under 10,000 bytes in size. A "customisation" program is supplied to change the colours and keyboard mappings to suit individual preferences. It has full support for screens of any size (not just 25x80) and full support for the OS/2 High Performance File System (HPFS). Comprehensive documentation is also provided.
 ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/os2_ews/tinyed220a.zip  local copy
T (A Tiny Editor) v. 2.00 (5/8/1992, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) Readme/What's new
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1987, 1992 T v2.00 - A Tiny Editor ======================= Introduction ------------ There are times even in today's world of multi-megabyte personal computers when a quick, simple and small text editor is of benefit. With a .EXE file of less than 9K bytes T is designed to fit that role. For the DOS user trying to cram more and more into 640K the advantages of small size are obvious, for the OS/2 user the speed and ability to run when even Presentation Manager is unavailable may prove just as useful. This document gives a very brief introduction to the Tiny Editor. Refer to the full documentation in T.DOC for all the details of the editor's command and keyboard functions. T.DOC also describes how T may be customised to suit individual preferences for things like screen colours and keyboard layouts. Installation ------------ The only file required to use T is the single executable: T.EXE for DOS or T2.EXE for OS/2. This should be placed in the current directory or in a subdirectory listed in the PATH. The help file THELP.HLP gives a summary of the editor's features. It may be useful to have this available the first few times it is used. Pressing the F1 help key will attempt to load and show this help file. Simple Editing -------------- To start the editor just enter the command T from a DOS prompt or T2 from an OS/2 prompt. This command can be followed by any number of filenames which will be loaded ready for editing. If no filenames are given a new empty file will be created. The cursor starts out on the editor's command line (the third line up from the bottom). Any valid T command may be entered on the command line and is executed when the Enter key is pressed. Some valid commands include: EDIT - To load a new file into the editor. FILE - To write the currently displayed file back to disk. PRINT - To print the currently displayed file. DOS - To run a DOS or OS/2 command. The cursor can be moved between the command line and the file's data area by pressing the Esc key. In the data area it can be moved anywhere between the "Top Of File" and "Bottom Of File" markers. At any point new text can be entered or the existing text changed. To add a new line press Ctrl-Enter and to delete a line press Ctrl-Backspace. One or more lines can be marked by pressing Alt-L on the first and last lines of the block to be marked. Marked lines can be moved by pressing Alt-M, copied with Alt-C or deleted with Alt-D. The current line can be repeated with Alt-R, split at the cursor position with Alt-S and joined with the following line with Alt-J. If more than one file is being edited at once the "ring" of files can be cycled round by pressing F10 or F11. Editing several files at once if particularly useful in conjunction with marked lines as lines from one file can be moved or copied into a different file. When all the required changes have been made the file can be written back to disk by pressing F2 and quitted with F3. Alternatively F4 will perform both these actions in one go. If you decide to abandon all the changes made just press F3 and answer the question "Throw away changes?" with a "y". To search for a particular piece of text, switch onto the command line and enter the command: /text T will search from the current cursor position forwards to find the next occurrence of the "text". Normally T requires an exact-case match (i.e. it would not find TEXT or even Text); to force any any-case match add a "c" option to the command like this: /text/c To do a search and replace, again switch onto the command line and this time use the command: c/this/that This will find the next occurrence of "this" and ask a question: "Yes/No/Go/Last/Quit?". Respond with a Y, N, G, L or Q as required: Yes - to change "this" to "that" and search for the next "this". No - to not make the change, but continue the search for the next "this". Go - to make this change and all subsequent changes up to the end of the file. Last - to make this change and to stop searching. Quit - to not make this change and to stop searching. To make all the changes straightaway, without prompting add the "*" option to the change command like so: c/this/that/* Customisation ------------- T may be customised to change the colours, keyboard assignments and one or two other settings. Take a look at the TKEYS.DEF file which describes the standard configuration. If you want to alter it, make a copy of TKEYS.DEF and edit it to reflect your required changes. Then run the TKEY.EXE customiser program to update the editor, like this: TKEY TKEYS.DEF T.EXE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- by: Tim Baldwin IBM UK Laboratories Ltd. Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire, UK. Internet: baldy@vnet.ibm.com
 ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/os2_ews/tinyed200.zip  local copy
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