Vim 7.1 under MS-DOS

I am using vim 7.1 16-bit under DOS and it runs and everything seems good, however I can't seem to write to any files at all. I can write with the 'edit' DOS command but not vim. Maybe someone knows what additional steps need to be taken for this? Thank you

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