edlin utilization

[LouisStDubois]

I know I'm a glutton for punishment.  I've been working with edlin.  They should have called it addlin.  Can anyone tell me how to keep edlin from adding lines and then citing you for "bad number construct."  I've looked quite a lot for some comprehensive instruction on edlin and can't find much.  If anyone could steer me to a decent edlin tutorial that would be greatly appreciated.  I realize that this isn't necessarily an MASM programming question as I'm attempting to write code in A86 using edlin as a text editor, but I'm doing it on an 8088 using two 5.25" floppy drives so I'm under some byte-size constraints (can't use a very big text editor).  I'm basically operating off one 360kb disk.  Thanks for any help.

[Tedd]

Ouch! You are one strange person :lol :wink

http://www.computerhope.com/edlin.htm looks promising.

For straight input you could try copy con <filename> and then ctrl+z to end.

[LouisStDubois]

Thanks Tedd.  I think I need to try debug too, and yes I do try to be "different."  eww