7{tOKRA'S "mAXI eDIT" IS INCLUDED IN THE vIC-20 TOOLS DIR AND IT IS USEFUL IF YOU WANT TO READ OR WRITE TEXT IN dIRpLUS dOS. iT DOESN'T WORK WITH THE BROWSER.

iT REQUIRES ram IN BLOCK 5 TO WORK. (dOWNLOAD THE FULL mAXI/uBER-EDIT PACKAGE IF YOU WANT TO PUT IT ELSEWHERE. yOU WILL FIND IT IN THE dENIAL vIC-20 FORUM).

yOU START IT FROM dIRPLUS dOS WITH THE COMMAND:
get maxi
...OR FROM THE BROWSER YOU PRESS k AND THEN TYPE maxi.

tHEN mAXI eDIT WILL BE STARTED AND dIRPLUS dOS WILL THEN BE (RE)STARTED. pLEASE NOTE THAT sOFT jIFFY WILL BE DISABLED.

dOS wEDGE WORKS WITH mAXI eDIT. sTART IT WITH get wedge.

iF YOU WANT TO RESTART dIRpLUS dOS WITH mAXI eDIT ACTIVE, THEN DON'T START IT THROUGH LOADING "D". dO THIS INSTEAD:
load"//dirplus/dos:cli",8
run

bOTH mAXI eDIT AND dOS wEDGE SURVIVES A rUNsTOP-rESTORE!

wITH THE TOOL unexpand (get unexpand) YOU CAN REDUCE A 8+K EXPANDED COMPUTER INTO AN UNEXPANDED MACHINE OR A 3K EXPANDED MACHINE. pLEASE DON'T TRY TO UNEXPAND TO A 3K EXPANDED MACHINE WHILE USING SOFT JIFFY IN BLOCK 0.

nOTE THAT mAXI-eDIT AND sOFT jIFFY CAN BE PLACED IN BLOCK 5 AT THE SAME TIME, BUT mAXI-eDIT WILL DISABLE sOFT jIFFY. iT WILL HOWEVER BE DETECTED AND RESTARTED IF YOU START "D" AFTER A RESET.

