PSEdit

These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.

• PSEDIT.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 64.0 KB
• PSEDIT.INI → A:\_DAT configuración 7.6 KB
• PS.BAT → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 57 B
• CGAHLP.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 8.3 KB
• MONO.DAT → A:\_DAT configuración 800 B

No need to put FILE_ID.DIZ, PRODUCTS.DOC, PSEDIT.DOC, PSEDIT.HST, PSEDIT.V42: they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 66.2 KB on a 1 MB disk.

1. Copy PSEDIT.EXE, PS.BAT, CGAHLP.COM to A:\SOFT. They are DOS programs: run them from the DOS icon, or add A:\SOFT to the PATH in C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them by name.
2. Copy PSEDIT.INI, MONO.DAT to A:\_DAT, where the 200LX looks for configuration. Open it with Memo and adjust it before use.
3. If you edit a configuration file on the palmtop, make sure you leave a newline at the end: some programs swallow the last line without saying a word.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

Installation ..................................... Appendix A
        Disclaimer ....................................... Appendix B
        Support .......................................... Appendix C
        Registration ..................................... Appendix D



1.0 What Is PSEDIT?

   One thing most of us learned early while working on our first PC
was that EDLIN, while useful, stank (stunk?)... was malodorous as an editor
of text files.  Soon there were hundreds of full screen text editors
available everywhere.  Even Microsoft finally came around and included EDIT
in DOS 5 to get us away from EDLIN.

   An early lesson that most who aspire to be power users learn is that not
all changes we desire to make are in text files.  Sooner or later we end
up patching an executable program, database, or strange format file that
text editors will not handle.  Enter DEBUG.  Just as EDLIN was a pain for
editing text files, DEBUG is a pain for editing binary files.  Strangely,
few people have jumped out with binary editors and some of the few I have
seen are not much better than DEBUG.

   PSEDIT is a very easy-to-use full screen editor for binary (or text)
files.  You simply type over the hex or ASCII data much as you would with
any text editor.  PSEDIT ensures that you enter hex characters (0-9 and A-F)
while you are in hex entry mode.  You will be able to see the hex and ASCII
representations at all times whether you are editing in hex or ASCII.

   Using PSEDIT is so intuitive, I don't know why I'm writing this documen-
tation or why you are reading it.  Perhaps we both like to move cautiously.

   You see a full screen of data at all times, not just a few bytes.  Paging
through the file is as easy as hitting PgUp and PgDn, you don't have to
…

Literal excerpt from PSEDIT.DOC, exactly as it came in the package.