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.
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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.
@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!"
@dosnostalgic @mczapla Got it. Just went down a rabbit hole on Wikipedia. I'll have to see if I can find a copy of PathMinder, which was the first of these 'orthodox file managers' on DOS. (I'd never heard of it before. XTGold was the one I always used under DOS, along with the legendary DirectoryOpus on Amiga.)
@thom @dosnostalgic At the risk of dating myself, I remember writing a program on an Amiga in Basic for designing custom electrical enclosures.
@mczapla Midnight Commander has been around on Linux for a very long time now