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title: "QED – A Public Domain Text Editor"
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excerpt: "About two years ago, NESQLUG obtained a copy of the IFE Library of public domain software. The Index to the 7,523 Files (47MB of programs) of the IFE Library contained 309K+ of text in a single File. On the Index disk was.a \"runtime\" version of the PD editor, \"QED\", which was intended to be used…"
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# QED – A Public Domain Text Editor

About two years ago, NESQLUG obtained a copy of the IFE Library of public domain software. The Index to the 7,523 Files (47MB of programs) of the IFE Library contained 309K+ of text in a single File. On the Index disk was.a “runtime” version of the PD editor, “QED”, which was intended to be used to view the Index data base.