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[Karolis Lyvens <karolisl AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:54:50PM +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:
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> To just browse, examine, the file tree, using links (or another
> inet browser) is simpler, and that's what happens when you enter
> the alias "d". Links is also an http/ftp/ browser and so you are
> basically learning to do those things, too, while you browse your
> files, not a bunch of specialized keyboard shortcuts that have no
> bearing anywhere else (most of them).

No bearing to anything else? For someone whose first shell/file manager
was Norton Commander, I find this your statement pretty strange.

Norton Commander spawned so many clones that even a new term was coined
- "Orthodox File Manager". This may be interesting, although i do not
expect you to read whole of it:

http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml

There are many NC clones for DOS, Win32, Win16 and UNIX. I do not think
that that makes MC (which resembles NC in most ways) so "unsimilar"
to any other file managet in existence.

Karolis