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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 18:02:28 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   Norton Commander, DOS Navigator, and Volkov Commander. Three legendary orthodox file managers for DOS.
   What orthodox file managers do you use, and on which platforms?
   I personally can barely function without one.
   #IBMPC #DOS #Computing #MSDOS #Software

   • Gareth Halfacree (ghalfacree@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 18:10:51 UTC Gareth Halfacree

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     @dosnostalgic
     Has to be X-Tree Gold. Pinnacle of file management, that.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 18:12:41 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Gareth Halfacree

     @ghalfacree Nah. Dual pane file managers are always more efficient by design. But of course X-Tree is a classic of sorts.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 18:28:00 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Thomas Beagle

     @thomasbeagle PCTools was great for actual tools. It's file manager while not bad still loses out a lot by not being dual pane.

   • Thomas Beagle (thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 18:28:02 UTC Thomas Beagle

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     @dosnostalgic Deeply offended that you didn't mention the one true Dos file manager, PCTools.

     Well, not exactly deeply. And not really offended.

     These days it's all Windows Explorer, not least because I don't need to do that much file management.

   • SuperIlu (dec_hl@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 19:08:55 UTC SuperIlu

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     @dosnostalgic On DOS I always start one of these sooner or later 😆

   • Le ronchon masqué 🧐 仮面 Grumpy (obo@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 19:31:25 UTC Le ronchon masqué 🧐 仮面 Grumpy

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     @dosnostalgic dosshell.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 20:56:37 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • engelbart

     @engelbart It's less than 100 kb in size, has a tiny memory imprint, and is super fast. All by the nature of it being written in pure assembly. As a result you can run it on anything, especially where NC at its clones would be detrimental to performance. I use it on all my vintage PCs, including 2 machines that run at around 8Mhz & have limited conventional memory.

   • engelbart@qoto.org's status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 20:56:38 UTC engelbart

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     @dosnostalgic I never understood why Volkov existed

   • psysal@mastodon.social's status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 21:04:26 UTC PsySal

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     @dosnostalgic wasn't there something midnight commander? Is that the same as volkov commander?

   • Jan v/d Broek (balglaas@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 21:36:32 UTC Jan v/d Broek

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     @dosnostalgic None. I've tried Norton Commander, didn't like it. Same for Dos-shell.
     The commandline is sufficient enough.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 21:39:44 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • PsySal

     @PsySal Midnight Commander is the most popular orthodox file manager for Linux.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 22:15:27 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Jan v/d Broek

     @balglaas Not if you're doing as many file operations on a regular basis as I it's not. 😄

   • comrad 🇪🇺 (comrad@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 22:44:41 UTC comrad 🇪🇺

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     @dosnostalgic
     I still use the midnight commander (nc) which is directly inspired by nc.

     And it's free and open!

     https://midnight-commander.org/

   • Jan v/d Broek (balglaas@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Nov-2022 05:40:37 UTC Jan v/d Broek

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     @dosnostalgic Depending on the kind if operations, if there's a regular basis I would write a batchfile, or a program.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 18:58:24 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Wake of Chaos

     @mczapla Midnight Commander has been around on Linux for a very long time now

   • Wake of Chaos (mczapla@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 18:58:25 UTC Wake of Chaos

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     @dosnostalgic Norton Commander! That's a blast from the past. I used to use that all the time. It would be interesting to see a Linux version.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 19:29:37 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Wake of Chaos
     • Thom

     @thom @mczapla They are all Norton Commander clones. XTree has some of the same elements, but also missing a few rather crucial ones, like dual pane mode.

   • Thom (thom@primitivebits.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 19:29:42 UTC Thom

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     • Wake of Chaos
     @dosnostalgic @mczapla I don't know the timeline, but I feel like all of the three of these DOS file managers were kind of clones of XTree, weren't they? I remember my first exposure to Midnight Commander was along the lines of, "It's like XTree, but for Linux!"