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- From: cotrozzi@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Massimo Cotrozzi)
- Subject: Re: Norton Commander lookalike 4 UNIX ?
- References: <1992Nov5.115112.24828@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:07:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.090719.20432@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
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- stud2@aifbhilkka.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Student2 f.SC64) writes:
-
- >I'm sick of introducing a naked hostile :-) Shell to UNIX-novices
- >used to Norton Commander under DOS. Is there a lookalike product
- >for UNIX (I mean, in the PD or shareware) ? No need for all of nc's
- >functionality, just the basic file/dir copying/moving/viewing stuff.
- >But that ought to look exactly like nc, to make the beginnings really
- >easy.
-
- >I know about vsh, but people I gave that found it even worse than sh.
-
- >No flames like "shell is __MUCH__ better than Norton Commander" please,
- >I really LOVE my shell, I just don't like to explain it again and again.
-
- tell them that when they will finally learn sh they can write
- nc entirely with it.
-
- Massimo
-
- ( Yes, vsh is even worse than command.com )
-
- P.S. Somebody here at my university is writing a pctools for X
- may be you can ask them ...
- --
- -- Massimo Cotrozzi Computer Science Dept. Milan Italy
- cotrozzi@ghost.dsi.unimi.it +39-2-27201253
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