Did you EVER use Norton Commander?

[Hroch]

I STILL use it when I boot FreeDOS for my DOS based Ghosting of system drives.
/some people are born paranoid
//only few of us are not afraid to use it

[Sam_Zen]

Not that much in the spotlight, but one of the great concepts of NC was the introduction of an internal (un)packer)

[kaffe]

Yep, started at NC 3.0. Last DOS-style orthodox filemanager used was Volkov. But the hassle of short filenames turned me away from DOS-box style managers. have also used Midnight commander a fair bit in shells.

[petermad]

2kaffe

But the hassle of short filenames turned me away from DOS-box style managers

Volkov v. 5 (beta) http://www.egner-online.de/vc/en/vc5.shtml supports long filenames.

[kaffe]

You are right petermad, the v5 beta had support, but if my mind works somewhat correct, there were a fair bit of problems with NT. Well, other software came and closed the gap. Used FAR for a bit as well after volkov.

[PeaceMaker]

There was also great "Dos Navigator"...

[fredscal]

Dos Navigator ruled !

I think it had this option that TC doesn't have: display executables (.com, .exe) on top of list. It would be nice to be able to customize which types should come on top

[Vochomurka]

I have the DOS installed on my computer, and I STILL use Norton Commander...

[fenix_productions]

2fredscal
DOS Navigator is now Open Source.

[Bylo]

I've used Norton Commander since the mid-80s. It's still installed on my IBM XT.

Anyone use the FILELIST (aka FLIST and FULIST) command on IBM's VM/CMS mainframe operating system? Those date back to the late-70s.

[dkyriakis]

NC was my first computer experience at all , and later I used Dos Navigator too.
Since than I can't use a computer without this "two panels style" to manage files: when I have to work at a new computer and I have no NC style tool around I feel like I don't have the hands(and not getting air) or something .

[petermad]

Since than I can't use a computer without this "two panels style" to manage files: when I have to work at a new computer and I have no NC style tool around I feel like I don't have the hands(and not getting air) or something

I feel exactly the same

[moonmoon]

I've used it.

[Sam_Zen]

2 dkyriakis
Right on. It's the basic survey of source and destination, a situation quite common if handling files..
There was more introduced. Viewing some content, data or bitmap, opening an external editor, moving files..

OT: My second favorite on DOS was NU. An excellent box full of useful system tools.

[Kane242]

Norton Commander was great!

The only filemanager i liked that could handle transfers via serial/parallel connection.