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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Computer woes
Date: 4 Aug 2015 17:06:07
Message: <55c1293f$1@news.povray.org>
Am 04.08.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Stephen:

>> And then there was the keyboard of my first own PC. One of the things I
>> did pretty early after unboxing was to install some Norton Commander
>> clone which, as you may recall, made heavy use of the function keys as
>> hotkeys for important stuff; I knew most of them by heart.
>
> That passed me by. Norton became a resource hog and I stopped using it
> early on.

You should have tried Volkov Commander. Same functionality as NC plus 
some more, yet still magnitudes smaller. Good old Russian assembler 
coding. I made sure to put it on all my boot disks.


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From: Bald Eagle
Subject: Re: Computer woes
Date: 4 Aug 2015 21:15:01
Message: <web.55c162c4edf66be65e7df57c0@news.povray.org>
> On 8/2/2015 6:13 PM, clipka wrote:

> > The good news was that yes, the second F5 key behaved exactly like the
> > good old F7 key. Phew! :)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  Not [F7] !!!!!   It's a trap!


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Computer woes
Date: 5 Aug 2015 05:29:34
Message: <55c1d77e$1@news.povray.org>
On 8/4/2015 10:05 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 04.08.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Stephen:
>
>>> And then there was the keyboard of my first own PC. One of the things I
>>> did pretty early after unboxing was to install some Norton Commander
>>> clone which, as you may recall, made heavy use of the function keys as
>>> hotkeys for important stuff; I knew most of them by heart.
>>
>> That passed me by. Norton became a resource hog and I stopped using it
>> early on.
>
> You should have tried Volkov Commander. Same functionality as NC plus
> some more, yet still magnitudes smaller. Good old Russian assembler
> coding. I made sure to put it on all my boot disks.
>
I've used AVG for years and when that started to slow down my machine. I 
swapped to MS Essentials.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Computer woes
Date: 5 Aug 2015 12:47:34
Message: <55c23e26@news.povray.org>
Am 05.08.2015 um 11:29 schrieb Stephen:
> On 8/4/2015 10:05 PM, clipka wrote:
>> Am 04.08.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Stephen:
>>
>>>> And then there was the keyboard of my first own PC. One of the things I
>>>> did pretty early after unboxing was to install some Norton Commander
>>>> clone which, as you may recall, made heavy use of the function keys as
>>>> hotkeys for important stuff; I knew most of them by heart.
>>>
>>> That passed me by. Norton became a resource hog and I stopped using it
>>> early on.
>>
>> You should have tried Volkov Commander. Same functionality as NC plus
>> some more, yet still magnitudes smaller. Good old Russian assembler
>> coding. I made sure to put it on all my boot disks.
>>
> I've used AVG for years and when that started to slow down my machine. I
> swapped to MS Essentials.

Wait... you're talking about anti-virus software, right?

That's not what Norton Commander was.

NC was a file manager for good old DOS, which allowed scrollable 
side-by-side viewing of two directories, copying stuff between both 
sides, and doing other fancy stuff, while at the same time always giving 
you a command prompt; it also came with integrated text and hex editors 
(or at least that's how I remember it; the hex editor might have been a 
Volkov Commander extension).

Total Commander still keeps up the tradition of Norton Commander clones.

Norton Commander was part of a package called Norton Utilities, which 
also included tools for disk defragmenting, data rescue (Norton Disk 
Doctor), and some such.

IIRC Norton Antivirus was a later invention.


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Computer woes
Date: 5 Aug 2015 13:17:39
Message: <55c24533$1@news.povray.org>
On 8/5/2015 5:46 PM, clipka wrote:

> Wait... you're talking about anti-virus software, right?
>
> That's not what Norton Commander was.
>
> NC was a file manager for good old DOS, which allowed scrollable
> side-by-side viewing of two directories, copying stuff between both
> sides, and doing other fancy stuff, while at the same time always giving
> you a command prompt; it also came with integrated text and hex editors
> (or at least that's how I remember it; the hex editor might have been a
> Volkov Commander extension).
>
> Total Commander still keeps up the tradition of Norton Commander clones.
>
> Norton Commander was part of a package called Norton Utilities, which
> also included tools for disk defragmenting, data rescue (Norton Disk
> Doctor), and some such.
>
> IIRC Norton Antivirus was a later invention.
>


Your right I was thinking about Norton Antivirus.

And what a coincidence. Yesterday I downloaded the evaluation version of 
Total Commander.
As I said to another Cmdr. It reminds me of Windows 1.0
It also hangs when I try to look at my network. I don't have the time to 
look at it just now. I am getting ready for a big appointment next week.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Computer woes
Date: 5 Aug 2015 14:05:02
Message: <55c2504e$1@news.povray.org>
Am 05.08.2015 um 19:17 schrieb Stephen:

> And what a coincidence. Yesterday I downloaded the evaluation version of
> Total Commander.
> As I said to another Cmdr. It reminds me of Windows 1.0
> It also hangs when I try to look at my network. I don't have the time to
> look at it just now. I am getting ready for a big appointment next week.

Depending on what you intend to do with it, you might want to have a 
look at BeyondCompare. If you need to compare or synchronize two 
folders, BC is all the tool you'll ever need. (And if you need to 
compare file contents, you get that for free on top ;))

It also does a tremendously good job at moving or copying huge numbers 
of files (or large files) from A to B, and plays pretty nice with 
network folders. (It even supports FTP.)


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Computer woes
Date: 5 Aug 2015 14:20:27
Message: <55c253eb$1@news.povray.org>
On 8/5/2015 7:04 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 05.08.2015 um 19:17 schrieb Stephen:
>
>> And what a coincidence. Yesterday I downloaded the evaluation version of
>> Total Commander.
>> As I said to another Cmdr. It reminds me of Windows 1.0
>> It also hangs when I try to look at my network. I don't have the time to
>> look at it just now. I am getting ready for a big appointment next week.
>
> Depending on what you intend to do with it, you might want to have a
> look at BeyondCompare. If you need to compare or synchronize two
> folders, BC is all the tool you'll ever need. (And if you need to
> compare file contents, you get that for free on top ;))
>

I don't intend to do anything with it. It was a recommendation from 
someone else. I installed it out of politeness so I could talk to him 
about it.

And the network works better if there is another machine switched on. 
<whistles tunelessly>

> It also does a tremendously good job at moving or copying huge numbers
> of files (or large files) from A to B, and plays pretty nice with
> network folders. (It even supports FTP.)
>

I'll bear that in mind. Thanks.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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