Reply 20 of 31, by Menkau_ra
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Try DosNavigator. It has so many features like nothing else! There is also one VERY small program calls VolkovCommander, which I drop onto my boot floppy disk with MS-DOS for troubleshootings.
Try DosNavigator. It has so many features like nothing else! There is also one VERY small program calls VolkovCommander, which I drop onto my boot floppy disk with MS-DOS for troubleshootings.
wrote:Quikmenu doesn't do anything if you right click. But if you click the FILES button up the top it gives you a basic mouse driven file manager. However, for DOS file management you can't go past XTree Gold (although its a textmode application and predominantly keyboard based, but very powerful).
XTree Gold is THE SHIT. I love it to pieces, have for nearly 20 years. I still use ZTreeWin at work, I'm that used to it.
XTree Gold actually has a menu system built in. It has collapsible submenu, and each entry can be a short script without any external files.
So, if you have it, it's a really flexible tool.
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Norton Commander or some clone?
Volkov Commander 4.05 is the king on usability, small memory and disk footprint, and it blazing fast, made with Assembler.
I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.
Xtree Gold was definitely the best and most powerful file manager for DOS. I still use Ztree too. However the best DOS GUI was PCTools. Very userfriendly in the days of a very userunfriendly OS. It could be used to launch apps since it removed itself from memory and had file/disk management features.
Norton Desktop came out after PCTOOLS and seemed like a bloated copy of PCTOOLS to me.
I was always an NC user because it was the fastest in navigating up and down directories when I had DOS 3.3.
DOSSHELL 5 was ok since it was included with DOS 5 and made it easier for noobs to manage files.
There was one called IDCSHELL which I used it heavily in the BBS era. It was a file and compression manager that was a frontend for LZH/ARJ etc. but was one of the first that had built-in ZIP & ARC. Later versions of XTG and NC came with ZIP/ARC built-in.
Even Lotus, maker of famous spreadsheet had their own DOS GUI - Magellan. I tried it but wasn't impressed.
wrote:Volkov Commander 4.05 is the king on usability, small memory and disk footprint, and it blazing fast, made with Assembler.
It wrecked my fat once. I wouldn't ever touch VC again. It was a good thing the PC I tried it on had expendable data that didn't need a backup.
Come to think of it, DISPLAY also has some pretty good file-management capabilities, in addition to being a versatile image (and movie!) viewer. It's available at http://www.resoo.org/docs/dos/free_software/graphics.htm . Not really a GUI, technically, but it's free, at least.
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I love this frontend. So fun.
"The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent’s strategy” -Sun Tzu
“Make your fighting stance, your everyday stance and make your everyday stance, your fighting stance.” - Musashi
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for those still interested, more info on this whole thing is available here:
http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml
I remember I had Packard Bell Navigator installed on my dos system a long time ago. I didn't use it much but still thought it to be a fun gui.
Here are some links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Bell_Navigator
http://toastytech.com/guis/pbnav.html
Apparently there were different versions, and I am sure mine was version 1. I don't know much about the other versions.
Does anyone know here about "3+ menus" (or "+3 menus")? I can't find it anywhere on the net 😖
I use the filemanager for all my DOS needs, it is just awesome: http://ndn.muxe.com/
it's Necromancer's DOS Navigator, originating from the original DN...