OTOTD

[OriginalGriff]

Thinking about it, there were loads of 'em back in the DOS days: "BRIEF - the Programmer's Editor", "XTree Gold", "Norton Utilities" (before they were sold to Symantec), "MASM", ... all damn good.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

[MarkTJohnson]

Oh YES! BRIEF was great. I liked PC Tools, it allowed me to have multiple desktops inside Windows for WorkGroups.

[Nagy Vilmos]

VB6. Yea I know, but I used it from launch until at least 2010! Actually, I used VB from the initial release. \m/

veni bibi saltavi

[Kevin Marois]

My toothbrush. I really enjoy my new dentures :cool::cool:

If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

[R Giskard Reventlov]

MS Access - it was a great tool in its day.

[Lost User]

sed, emacs. Oh, and that old mechanical Hollerith card punch with the 4 x 3 keypad.

[Corporal Agarn]

VEdit loved it. Now Notepad ++ does what I need.

Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.

[Bassam Abdul Baki]

I've been an Ultraedit user since year one.

Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

[Gary Wheeler]

ProComm[^]

Software Zen: delete this;

[Lost User]

It did; it came with ms-paint. The reason those picture-viewers became so popular was "hands free slide shows".

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

[Besinger]

I'm probably dating myself (again): anyone remember sidekick?

[Forogar]

I still use that one.

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

[Forogar]

I miss BRIEF, you could have all kinds of macros (written in a c-like script).

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

[kmoorevs]

WS FTP Pro - 16 bit version. When it became too much trouble to get it to run, I tried a few other FTP programs but found none that I liked. In the end I wrote my own. :)

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

[Lost User]

FoxPro for DOS PC Tools QEMM (Memory manager) 1dir+ (DOS Shell)

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan

[H Brydon]

Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using.

The [IBM 026 Keypunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch). Oh yeah the 029 as well...

I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey

[parths]

DOS Commander.

"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman "Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently." -Anon.

[den2k88]

As far as I can recall it didn't read many format, including JPEG. I was fairly young and inexperienced at that time so I listened a lot to what others said - and they weren't experts, just tinkers.

DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

[Lost User]

It was updated (before Win98 came about) to include extra file-formats, yes.

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

[den2k88]

At that time I had the 27 floppies version ;P I couldn't install nor Plus! nor OSR/2 due to lack of CD reader. Came the CD came Win98 came the crashes with the screensaver; reverted but to NT4. Lasted until Win98 SE, then skipped everything until XP. On the oldest PC I installed Win Me and I'm one of the only three people satisfied with it.

DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani