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From: maddoxt@novavax.UUCP (Thomas Maddox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Norton Commander
Message-ID: <438@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 88 16:20:10 GMT
References: <297@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <4330055@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: maddoxt@novavax.UUCP (Thomas Maddox)
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Summary: Cheaper and better, Directory Scanner

In article <4330055@hpindda.HP.COM> hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin) writes:
>
>I don't use Norton Commander, but from the demo that came with 
>Norton Utilities, it looks like a competitor to Xtree.  Personally,
>I like Xtree Professional a lot and would recommend it over what
>I have seen of Norton Commander.  (I'd enjoy hearing dissenting
>opinions, though...)
>
	Okay, here's a strongly dissenting opinion.  For simplicity,
ease and power in a DOS shell, try Nat Martino's Directory Scanner
(currently in version 3.10a, I believe), available as shareware on
BBSes nationwide.  Like programs such as XTree, it presents a full
screen of the sub-directory tree and programs contained in the logged
sub-directory.  It allows tagging, individually or mass, and
subsequent copying, moving, deleting, etc.  It finds files about as
quickly as can be imagined, it allows renaming and hiding of
directories, it has macros, it even has its own backup program.
Though its documentation is excellent, its help screens, quick and
extended, make the docs largely irrelevant.  In addition, use of the
program almost instantly becomes intuitive.  In short, it is one of
the best and most useful utility programs ever written for MS-DOS.
	It costs--fully registered--$15.  
	Never mind Norton Commander or XTree; save your money for
something where a big-time commercial program is the only thing that
will fill your needs.