Re: norton commander

[steef <steefvanduin@zonnet.nl>]

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   

.......there were some tricks for talking to a person from screen to 
screen with two keyboards. this trait worked with the keys: Fx,y,z, AFAIR.

my IBM hd was loaded dos, wp5.1, a z-modem and a fax-sending program, 
allmost identical to the somewhat later fax-sending programs form 
computer-associates.

sending files (a great progress in that time: instead of roaming around 
in your car in the middle of the night to a journal/paper) worked with 
the keys too. It started with F9 under the nc, and proceeded with a 
combination of F3,F4 if i remember well after all these years.

this all worked excellent.

steef

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