where is edit.com or edit.exe?

[freedomdoc]

I wonder if on Win7 64 bit they did away with the venerable old DOS edit.com or edit.exe (I forget if it was ever an exe file, seems like it was). I know it was there in Win7 32 bit.
I can't find it anywhere on my new HP dv7 laptop. I can use textpad I guess but for quick and dirty editing of a new file, I found edit to be perfect.

 

[MilesAhead]

64 bit Windows will not run 16 bit programs. To run 16 bit apps, such as the old .com dos stuff, you need to use an emulator, such as DosBox.

edit: for small powerful command line editor you may want to try vim

It has many implementations. 16 bit Dos ones as well as 32 bit Windows. It's a port of the vi editor that I ran into on Linux. I started using it enough that I found myself rapidly jumping between command and edit mode without having to think about it. I was afraid of going schizo. So I gave it up. But it's way more powerful than Dos edit. You can rearrange whole paragraphs and make complex substitutions using a few commands that you can't do in free Windows editors I've seen. Most Windows editors that have similar capabilities cost $150 or more.

edit2: now that I look at the vim page again, seems it also comes in native 64 bit Windows versions.