RE: Text edition - DOS and Linux

> 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.

I know this thread is about DOS, but just want to mention since
Norton Commander came up that there is a similar program called
'midnight commander' included with most linux distributions
(presumably EMC BDI as well) which can be invoked with the command
'mc'.

I haven't really used it much, but it's there...

Chris

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