A Brief Introduction to EDIT EDIT is a text editor and word processing program for the IBM PC family of computers. It is very simple to use; to create or edit a file called "text", you simply type edit text in response to the DOS prompt. To exit EDIT and return to DOS, you press the function key F1, which selects EDIT's Quit command, and then press E. EDIT is very easy to use. The cursor control keys on the right side of the keyboard all perform the action designated on the key. A prompt line on the screen indicates the command for each of the function keys on the left side of the keyboard. The text keys in the center of the keyboard are used for entering text. In addition to the basic commands for the cursor control and function keys, most of the commands also have a "stronger" version that is entered by holding down Ctrl or Shift and pressing the basic cursor control or function key. Yet EDIT is very powerful, both as a general purpose text editor and as a word processing program. It supports a wide array of editing operations, including powerful commands that are often not available even in very expensive word processors. Naturally, EDIT gives you a wide range of control over the final layout of your printed file, including headers and footers, page size, tab stops, margins, right justification, spacing, etc. It supports not just "word wrapping", but full automatic paragraph reformatting. Under versions 2.0 or later of DOS, EDIT even allows you to execute DOS commands, or start another program without leaving EDIT. There are a few things EDIT leaves out. It doesn't allow you to edit files much bigger than about 50,000 characters (25 single spaced pages of text). It doesn't include a spelling checker (although it stores files as normal text, so that most spelling checking programs work with files created by EDIT). It doesn't support footnotes, or automatic table of contents generation. EDIT doesn't try to do everything, but it does do everything that most people need from a text editor or word processor, and it does those things very well. Repetition..........................................2-5 2.6. Input to Command Prompts......