Re: Text editing in DOS

Norton Commander would do exactly what you wanted. It divided the screen into two panels, each of which displayed a directory, and there was a feature called Quick View in which one side displayed a directory listing and the other displayed one screen of the file which was highlighted. You could also zoom the file out to full screen or edit it.
Symantec doesn't make NC any more, which is sad because it was a really dynamite program - Windows could have learned a lot from it...then again, Microsoft could have learned a lot from just about any other program. Anyway, NC was really the best file manager ever made, and there are lots of net sites where you can download a copy - the whole thing is only a couple of megs. I don't know how Symanted feels about this,
apparently they don't care since it is easy to find. I still use it all the time - it also runs in a dos session under windows.
There are also several windows versions out there, the best being Windows Commander, which can be had at www.ghisler.com and I think at Tucows. It does everything the original did and handles long filenames, also it has a deadly file finder which can look for a file by name or date or by looking for a string it contains and can search various types of zip files at the same time, also it can compare the contents of two
files and show similarities and differences, easily the best comparison utility I have seen. Also it can copy a whole directory tree to a new location, or overwrite one with another and update only newer files, all the standard stuff. Also it does FTP and a variety of other things.
If you are using dos or windows and you don't have one of these programs you are probably wasting a lot of time and effort.

Regards,

Simon

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