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From: Hector Santos
To: Steve Khanell Msg #177, 25-Jul-88 18:17cst
Subject: Re: Ced
>
>I frequently hear of a program called CED being mentioned. What exactly
>does this program do?
>
CED is a keyboard enhancement program. It's quite powerful. The basic
feature in CED and other keyboard programs is the DOS command recaller.
By using your up and down arrow keys you can recall the previous DOS
commands you entered. I forget exactly how much it can remember.
Once you recall a DOS command, you can use your left and right arrows
to edit the command before hitting ENTER. Insert/Overwrite is also
supported.
But the main feature in CED, which is a idea born on VAX machines, is
the ability to create "synomyns". How many times do you create a batch
file just to run a program or group of programs? With CED you create
a synomyn. For example;
CED SYN d dir
this command allows the D to represent the dir command. So when you
hit D, and ENTER. The dir command is issued to DOS.
Here's a few I use a lot.
syn d dir %1 %2 %3 %4
syn t4c tpc %1 /M /T\turbo4 /U\turbo4\units;\turbo4\power
syn flist pc-flist /q %1 %2 %3 %4
syn purge erase *.bak
syn purgall wh *.bak /d %1 %2 %3
The T4C is a synomyn for a turbo pascal compiler. I like the purge
commands to erase my bak files from disk from time to time. Notice you
can pass parameters just like batch files. Synomyns are great. They
reduce batch files which take up space, and the commands are
instantaneously executed.
This the only way I use CED, the recaller and synomyns. But there is
a whole slew of features that I myself had not used and dont much about
it.
<hec>
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