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- The Norton Commander 5.0
- -------------------------
- Welcome to the new Norton Commander 5.0. This guide provides you with:
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- * An overview of what's new with Norton Commander
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- * A list of enhanced features
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- What's New in Norton Commander 5.0
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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.
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- Drag from one panel to another to copy files, or hold down the ALT key to move
- files.
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- You can even drag files/directories to the button bar at the bottom of the
- screen to invoked a file operation.
-
- * Filters
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- Norton Commander 5.0 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- <> 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
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- 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.
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- The utilities are designed for Novell networks supporting Netware 3.x and
- Netware 4.x.
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- <> Send Message:
- Send Messages and review details of users or groups of Users
- on the LAN.
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- <> Attach/Detach Server:
- Attach to or Detach from a list of Servers easily with out
- needing complex syntax.
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- <> Drive Mappings:
- Map drives to servers with the click of a button.
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- <> Server Information:
- Provides information regarding all networks on a LAN.
-
- * File Splitter
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- The Norton Commander 5.0 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
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- 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
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- The Norton Commander File Finder has been completely rewritten and designed
- to provide the following advanced and useful features.
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- <> 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.
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- <> 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.
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- <> 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.
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- What's enhanced in the Norton Commander 5.0 ?
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-
- * File Attributes
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- Now you can select multiple files and directories and set the attributes of
- the files using one simple step.
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- Useful for marking all files in a nested directory structure as read-only.
-
- * Configuration Panel
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- Configuration has been moved to one location, making it easier to configure
- screens, panels, screen savers, mouse and video characters.
-
- * System Information
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- The Norton Commander System Information has been extended to display
- information about memory arrangement, hardware configuration, and CMOS Status.
-
- * File Printing
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- You can now print the contents of files to a postscript printer.
-
-
- * Compression
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- The Norton Commander 5.0 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
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- The Configuration of Norton Commander 5.0 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 5.0 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 5.0, 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
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- The Norton Commander Copy command has been modified
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- <> 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
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- You can now choose from a selection of 20 text based and graphical screen
- savers.
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