[Discussion] Thinking of going IMAC

Felmon Davis davisf at union.edu
Mon Dec 7 18:41:19 PST 2009


On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Thomas Clayton wrote:

> Felmon,
> 
> " it's like an old program I used to use, I believe 'Norton 
> Utilities'? or 'mc' in Linux. " The old DOS program would be "Norton 
> Commander" (NC).

yes, that was it exactly!

how do you guys _remember_ this stuff?!

> It's 'competitor' (at the time) was "Xtree". Our 
> FM2 is, I think, closer to "Xtree".
> 
> I'm a "File Commander /2" (32-bit text-mode OS/2) user, as well as, 
> "EF Commander" for OS/2 (very old, GUI) and for MS-Windows (older 
> free version but, not, the newest commercial version). (EF is the 
> German programmer, Emil Finkel, BTW.) I _DO_ have the NC for OS/2 
> (GUI) but _prefer_ the text mode FC/2 which I bought a (shareware) 
> license for.

after I stopped using NC I just became a 'dir /p' kind of guy, maybe 
use two terminals.

> Thomas Clayton
> 
> IF I've just started a new thread, which I didn't intend to do,
> THEN let's call it "File Managers".

well, my post + your post + my post do not a 'thread' make. maybe a 
stringlet. really little more than lint.

F.


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Felmon Davis

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