[ale] OT: Nano Win32 Binary?

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

This might help.

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.

http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc

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There are three versions that run on MS-DOS or in a console window in 
MS-Windows:

16 bit DOS executable   vim##d16.zip    vim71d16.zip
    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.
    The last version available is 7.1. Version 7.2 and later are too big
    to fit in the DOS memory model. 
32 bit DOS executable   vim##d32.zip    vim73_46d32.zip
    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.
    Not available for 7.4 and later. 
Win32 console executable   vim##w32.zip    vim74w32.zip
    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...). 

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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.

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.

Sincerely,

Ron


On 9/14/2013 7:26 PM, Justin Goldberg wrote:
> 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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