# Wait! Two typos made a mess of that. Here's what I really wanted to ask :

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 22, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-two-typos-made-a-mess-of-that-heres-what-i-really-wanted-to-ask/51190 "2001-01-22T00:55:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![spark\_applied\_to\_powder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@spark\_applied\_to\_powder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spark_applied_to_powder)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-two-typos-made-a-mess-of-that-heres-what-i-really-wanted-to-ask/51190/1 "2001-01-22T00:55:51Z")

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I like Notepad a lot, but it won’t work with large files.

And I liked DOS edit a lot (especially the way you could select things to cut and paste by columns as well as rows), but it doesn’t work with the regular cut and paste system, nor long file names.

Word and Wordpad are overkill and take too long to load on my machine.

What else are people using for quick simple stuff?

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**Author:** ![spark\_applied\_to\_powder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@spark\_applied\_to\_powder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spark_applied_to_powder)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-two-typos-made-a-mess-of-that-heres-what-i-really-wanted-to-ask/51190/2 "2001-01-22T00:57:19Z")

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Aggh! This was supposed to be a correction to the other thread, not a new thread.