On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:27:17PM +0000, steef wrote:
a long time ago, in 1993, i had a 386 box with dos, wp51 and the norton
commander. with the norton commander i could talk to a person behind
the key-board of another computer and send my workfiles (made with
wp5.1, that marvellous editing program). the 386 is dismantled. the hd
of 150 mb is still completely loaded in my possession.
i suppose the midnight commander was directly derived from the norton
commander. or not ?? if yes: where can i find more info on this
development?. just out of curiosity.
AFAIK, Norton Commander was the inspiration for mc. Note that I haven't
seen a function for talking to another person. However, this is Unix.
How did your computer connect with the other? If via a modem or serial
line, then you want minicom in Debian. You can sit an chat with someone
and send and receive files all from within minicom.
Doug.