16 Nov
2007
16 Nov
'07
10:35 p.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I've always had a weakness for some types of
"file managers" -- started with
NSWEEP under CP/M, then went for a while with something calling itself QDOS
(only it wasn't) under DOS, but that had a weird problem if you had a lot of
files in a given directory -- beyond about 6-700 or so it just wouldn't show
them all. I finally ended up with InspectA, which allowed you to type in
a "description" for any file on the system. Finding a "files.bbs"
file in
there it'd use the contents of that, which was handy. Under linux I'm
currently using mc, which lacks this feature, though having long filenames
helps some. It's really not quite enough though.
Ever used Lotus Magellan?
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