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Calvin 2.4 (Announce)

posted by bencollver , 19.01.2026, 17:53

Calvin is a very small and fast vi editor for 16 bit DOS.

There is really only one change in this release: the status message from ^G now prints the current column as well as the line. The only real reason for this release is to port the source code from Borland Turbo-C & A86 to the free Watcom compiler toolchain, which is shipped with FreeDOS.

Bits
https://archive.org/details/calvin24
gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/files/dos/editor/calvin/

Source code
https://chiselapp.com/user/bencollver/repository/calvin/timeline
gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/fossil/calvin/

Complete thread:

• Calvin 2.4 - bencollver, 19.01.2026, 17:53
  • Calvin 2.4 - ecm, 19.01.2026, 18:42
  • Calvin 2.4 - boeckmann, 25.01.2026, 15:43