From: jrm@quest1.UUCP (John Moyer) Subject: Re: norton-like shell for unix? Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 17:30:28 GMT
In article <28uviu$qvo@balsam.unca.edu> fauerbac@canton.cs.unca.edu (John Fauerbach) writes:
>: Does anybody know about a shell that is comparable to the
>: "Norton Commander" running under MS-DOS?
>: I mean a shell that makes copying, moving and purging files
>: more comfortable. ( No, it's _not_ for me but someone else ;-)
>Me too. I looking for something that displays two different directories at
>the same time a that I could copy files between eachdirectory.
>Thanks,
>John Fauerbac
One called gram's commander or gc was posted to one of the source groups
sometime this year.
Graham Wheeler, Aztec Information Management,
gram@aim1.aztec.co.za.
from the README file:
README for Gram's Commander v3.1
=================================
I have been promising this release for quite a while now. Unfortunately
I have been busy, been overseas, been sick, etc, so I haven't been able
to give it all the time it deserves. It works under UNIX SVR4, HP-UX, and
on Crays; other platforms may or may not work.
I have decided to reelase gc3.1 at this point because it is becoming
difficult for me to respond to problems reported by the beta testers
without access to the same target systems as they are using. My hope
in releasing gc3.1 now is that other users who may have more programming
experience than some of the gc beta testers will be able to find the
problems for me and send me patches. Also, if I don't do it now, gc3.1
will probably *never* be released, due to time constraints.
Despite the fact that it hasn't been completely ported to all Unix
flavours, if you are a programmer familiar with your architecture you
should not have much difficulty getting the system going. In particular
I have kept the use of Curses routines to a minimum as this is a big
portability problem.
Please read the gc3.doc file for full details about gc3.1. The gc3 manual
entry is very terse and really just refers to the doc file as well.
For those who are familiar with gc, you will be pleased to know that
gc3.1 is a *major* improvement over gc2.x, mostly because it is now
almost completely controlled by a fairly powerful script language. To make
the most of gc3 you will want to familiarise yourself with the script
language and create your own gc3.key file.
I hope someone finds htis helpful.
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