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The Norton Commander 5.5
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Welcome to the new Norton Commander 5.5. This guide provides you with:
* An overview of what's new with Norton Commander
* A list of enhanced features
What's New in Norton Commander 5.5
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* Drag & Drop
Drag & Drop support now makes it even easier to manipulate your files between
panels. You can drag as single file, or groups of files and directories.
Drag from one panel to another to copy files, or hold down the ALT key to move
files.
You can even drag files/directories to the button bar at the bottom of the
screen to invoked a file operation.
* Filters
Norton Commander 5.5 features advanced file selection techniques. File
selection is now based on Operation Filters that affect all file operations
like copy, move, synchronise, delete and compress.
Operation Filters allow the users to specify file selection based on file
name, date and time, file size and even file attributes. This advanced
selection criteria is traditionally confined to File Finder utilities,
however Norton Commander integrates this feature at the heart of
the Commander kernel making it the best all-round file manager available
today.
* Synchronise Directories
The Norton Commander makes it easy to synchronise files/directories between
two or more machines or network volumes. This feature will be particularly
useful for portable computer users that have to keep copies of Filters.
* Compressed File Viewing
Now you can view the contents of any file contained within a compressed file.
Simply open the compressed file, select the file and press the View button.
* Disk Utilities
The Norton Commander adds some useful Disk utilities to extend the
functionality of the File Manager so that common day-to-day DOS activities
can be carried out from within the Commander environment.
<> Format Diskette:
Format disks easily without worrying about how to use the DOS
format command.
<> Copy Diskette:
Create a disk image and make multiple copies of a disk. Simpler
and faster than the DOS copy command.
<> Label Diskette:
Now add a label to any DOS drive using this simple and useful
utility.
* Network Utilities
The Norton Commander now lets your perform a variety of operations across a LAN,
using a simple menu system and a familiar interface. You can send messages,
view server volume information, attach to or detach from servers, and map or
unmap drives.
The utilities are designed for Novell networks supporting Netware 3.x and
Netware 4.x.
<> Send Message:
Send Messages and review details of users or groups of Users
on the LAN.
<> Attach/Detach Server:
Attach to or Detach from a list of Servers easily with out
needing complex syntax.
<> Drive Mappings:
Map drives to servers with the click of a button.
<> Server Information:
Provides information regarding all networks on a LAN.
* File Splitter
The Norton Commander 5.5 features a file Split and Merge utility that allows
large files be broken down into small ones. Essential if you file wont fit
on one floppy disk. Split it up over a number of disks and remerge later
onto another hard disk.
* Disk Cleanup
Clean you hard disk of unwanted files created by other programs such as
readme, autosave and temporary files. Completely configurable to create your
own file sets.
* File Search
The Norton Commander File Finder has been completely rewritten and designed
to provide the following advanced and useful features.
<> Regular Expressions. You now have greater control in how you
define your search criteria when looking for files. You can
control what files are included and excluded during the search
and locate specific text patterns in files.
<> File Find Panel. You can send the results of your search
operation to a standard Commander File Panel. This is useful when
you want to perform block operations on a group of files scattered
around different directories on your hard disk.
<> Duplicate File Searching. You can now search for duplicate files on
your hard disk.
<> Multiple Search locations. You can search multiple locations for
your files. You can also use environment variables like %PATH% to
guide your file search on your disks.
<> Commander Line Support. You can launch the Norton Commander to find
essential files using command line switches. They offer the full
flexibility of the menu driven program.
What's enhanced in the Norton Commander 5.5 ?
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* File Attributes
Now you can select multiple files and directories and set the attributes of
the files using one simple step.
Useful for marking all files in a nested directory structure as read-only.
* Configuration Panel
Configuration has been moved to one location, making it easier to configure
screens, panels, screen savers, mouse and video characters.
* System Information
The Norton Commander System Information has been extended to display
information about memory arrangement, hardware configuration, and CMOS Status.
* File Printing
You can now print the contents of files to a postscript printer.
* Compression
The Norton Commander 5.5 now compresses up to 40,000 files, using a variety of
compression programs including ZIP, ARC, ARJ, PAK, LHARC and ZOO.
* Delete Command
An improved Delete command now lets you delete all files in a directory but
keeps the directory structure intact. Great for developers archiving a
development project who want to get rid of their MAP and LNK files.
* Configuration
The Configuration of Norton Commander 5.5 has been consolidated into a single, easy-to-use dialog box.
Through this one interface users can configure the screen colours, confirmation options, compression
options and printer options for all the Commander utilities.
One new feature supported in the Norton Commander 5.5 is the ability to switch
the character set into a semi-graphical one that displays check-boxes and
radio buttons as they appear in Windows.
* Terminal emulation Program
The terminal emulation program has been modified to provide support for the
newer, more modern UI of Norton Commander 5.5, with support also provided
for Keyboard macros, INT-15, and NCSI. The product now also supports data
connections at up to 115,200 bps, so users with fast modems can avail of the
speed using this product. Access to CompuServe is improved with support for
the CompuServe-B file transfer protocol.
* Copy Command
The Norton Commander Copy command has been modified
<> Copy newer files only : this can have a dramatic effect on the
overall time to copy and synchronise directories from one machine
to another. Use in conjunction with the new Synchronise directories
command and you have the ideal File Manager for mobile computer
users.
<> Check the destination disk space prior to starting a copy operation.
* Screen Savers
You can now choose from a selection of 20 text based and graphical screen
savers.