From: "Matthias Paul" <MPAUL AT ibh DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Organization:  IBH, RWTH-Aachen
To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Date:          Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:40:09 GMT+0100
Subject:       Re: Interactive shells Re: 32bit BIOS
Reply-to: Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-ID: <4BE7B5F84@ibh.rwth-aachen.de>


On Sat, 22 Mar 97, "-= ArkanoiD =-" (what's your *real* name?) wrote:
> > From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
> > To: <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>, <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>

[Archives mounted in the file system, Internet access with UNC]
> > This would be cool, though I'm already capable of doing so in Norton
> > Comnmander 5.0.
> 
> I don't think it would be cool.. 

Why not?  What's so bad with the idea?  If you don't want it, 
just don't use it, and it won't cost you memory, speed, whatsoever... 

I must admit, it would be slow if for maximum compatibility using 
we'd use the original 3rd party archivers, but, of course, we could 
write specialized programs for common archivers like ZIP/ARJ/RAR/LHA.  
These would be faster, since there was no a big overhead due to the 
permanent shelling/initializing of the external utilities. 

> and i don't like Norton Commander 5.0 - it
> is huge,slow and stupid. Volcov Commander + ARCview is smaller,
> faster and (imho) offers better interface.

Hm, speaking of alternatives, what's about the DOS Navigator [DN]:  
It's small (compared to NC), similar speed compared to the NC, better 
link funktions, better archiver support, better editor, 4DOS support, 
open end flexiblity, much more... 
[For those of you, who don't know the DN III 1.50 right now, I have 
included a pointer to their site on my web page.]

Bye,

  Matthias
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