A lot of DOS was going away when Win95 started the merge of DOS with the GUI/Graphical User Interface of Windows. You can edit .txt files in Notepad. Notepad does not add any hidden coding/formatting as done by a word processing program, quite useful for programmers and basic HTML coding. MS-DOS 6.22 had a MS-DOS Editor but that is gone., The MS-DOS Editor provides fundamental text editing functions such as create, open, edit, save, and delete. Users can insert, delete, and overwrite text with ease., The version that shipped with Windows 95 could replace the system Notepad because it had a lower file limitation. In the DOS 7.0 version, edit can edit files up to 65,279 lines and 5 MB of file usage (earlier versions up to 300 – 400 KB depending on free memory)., Starting with Windows 95, MS-DOS Editor became a standalone program because QBasic didn't ship with Windows. The Editor may be used as a substitute for Windows Notepad on Windows 9x, although both are limited to small files only., YEdit is a Win32/Win64 recreation of the MS-DOS 5 editor. It can be copied as a single binary with no dependencies or installation. Although minimalism is a goal, some of its capabilities include: It can run on very old systems, or those with limited capabilities, including WinPE, Server Core and Nano Server:, Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool .