Text 3530, 88 rader
Skriven 2012-09-07 16:08:51 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 3507 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol29 no36 FrontPage
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08 Jul 22 15:09, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:

 RB> Roy Witt wrote to mark lewis on Thursday September 06 2012 at 18:54:

 ml>>> mc (midnight commander, a norton command clone) is a popular tool,

 RB> Only a pity it isn't closer to the Total Commander. I never could get
 RB> warm with the mc - too little power and too much work to deal with it
 RB> unless you've taken a course beforehand.

I had a copy of NC a long time ago. Didn't like it then and wouldn't like
it today, for sure.

 RB> And I _hate_ these "man" pages with little or no real information on
 RB> them - you usually need someone to interpret them for you to get any
 RB> good out of them.

I got a bunch of programs from one of my boss' at work in the early
2000s, including NC. The only good one in the bunch was Partition Magic
v8. I still use it today.

 RW>> I wouldn't trust Norton with doing anything with my computers.

 RB> Maybe not Norton, but the NC was a good piece of work and the clones
 RB> are all over the place. I use the Total Commander under Windows and
 RB> abother clone (FileCommander/2 = FC/2) under OS/2. They make the
 RB> system transparent enough so that even I know what's going on.

I have a small DOS program that I use to find files when they're not where
they're expected to be: WhereIs.COM will search an entire drive and report
the whereabouts of every file it can find that is the same name as that
requested to find. I can do the same thing in Ztree, but it takes a few
extra button pushes to get there. Meanwhile, Ztree can log each drive and
do that same search if whereis.com was initiated in Ztree's dos window.

Alt-X will bring up a window of 'executed' commands and you can choose one
of them to repeat as often as you like.

 RW>> I was in too much of a hurry to get XP working the way I wanted it
 RW>> and overlooked a check box that said, intall Norton antivirus
 RW>> yes/no...

 RB> That, on the other hand, is a catastrophe. The proper answer is: "No,
 RB> for God's sake!!"

Unfortunately, I did't see the box or I would have chosen 'Hell No!!!'

 RW>> ...had I paid attention it woulddn't have been installed. I'll have
 RW>> to go back and remove it when I get XP and other software and
 RW>> hardware working the way I want it.

 RB> Good luck, as removing it completely is a real job involving manual
 RB> work on the registry. I've had to do this a couple of times, and it's
 RB> no fun. The deinstallation routine simply does NOT deinstall
 RB> everything, and leaves a lot of junk in the system.

There's enough room on that drive to store those NFG files, as long as I
don't get another window that says a file that has been deleted can't be
found...(see W2K)

 RW>> Microsoft's version of malware and antivirus software works so much
 RW>> better.

 RB> Not sure what you mean here. All I'm familiar with is the firewall,
 RB> which is good, but antivirus software von MS would be something new
 RB> for me. I prefer Kaspersky, but eveyone has a favorite of their own.

It's something that MS included with the software on my laptop running
under Vista. It's available on MS's site for any OS above W2k...I forget
the actual name of it, but it sits in the 'tray' and keeps an eye on
eveerything that happens on the system and keeps anything from
contaminating the HDs, if someone were able to get that something past the
router's firewall. It also updates itself on a regular basis without any
manipulation by the user. I'd have to refer to the laptop to find the name
of it (early old age memory laps here). Suffice to say that at least Roger
knows what I'm talking about.


                R\%/itt


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