Re: Norton Commander?

[apz <apz nofate com>]

Xu, Qiang (XSSC SGP) wrote:
> //hand
> it is also the same case with me. i used norton commander quite a lot in dos
> age and early stage of win95. but now nc can't be used under NT4.0 and Win98
> and Unix and Linux. 

I still got my NC 5 for dos and believe that it can be used under 
nt4/win98. But you lose long filename support, and some other niceties 
(drag drop with windows apps, etc).

However, Symantec did release two Windows versions, called ncWin, 
http://www.pugh.co.uk/Products/symantec/Norton%20Commander%202.htm


You can read more about this at http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml
http://www.rmonet.com/commander/


but yes, nc never was under unix, nor linux.



/apz, nc follower since v2 dos days, now using mc/wincmd.