how can I edit text files while on telnet service of windows 2003 japanese

Question

I want to edit text files on logging-in windows telnet service with terminal emulator like putty

notepad? of course not. I tried vim for win32 console but it is worthless. edlin? oh no. please let me know something.

please some more hints.

on my windows 2003, I cann't find 'edit'

C:\Documents and Settings\crowdy>edit
'edit' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

these are what I have on server. I fotgot to mention that it's windows 2003 server japanese. sorry.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>dir e*.exe e*.com /w
 ドライブ C のボリューム ラベルは program です
 ボリューム シリアル番号は 0C71-A795 です

 C:\WINDOWS\system32 のディレクトリ


 C:\WINDOWS\system32 のディレクトリ

edlin.exe           esentutl.exe        eudcedit.exe        eventcreate.exe     eventtriggers.exe
eventvwr.exe        exe2bin.exe         expand.exe          extrac32.exe
               9 個のファイル             556,682 バイト
               0 個のディレクトリ   3,358,867,456 バイトの空き領域

Answer 1

Edit is a bit slow under NT (it's a .com rather than a .exe), but it's good enough if you can't use anything else.

If you can't find it, access it thusly:

C:\Windows\System32\edit.com myfile.txt

Answer 2

Edit. Actually not too bad of a text editor.

Answer 3

nano is pretty simple and a Win32 binary is available. It's compiled against Cygwin, but the necessary DLLs are included in the ZIP file. The simplest installation is to just dump nano.exe and the DLLs into the same directory, then just run nano.exe.

If you need a CLI program to unzip it, you can use the one from Info-Zip. A self-extracting version is available here.