freeware like Total Commander?

[Glev Zarriontal]

Yes, I know that, and I have tried all of them in the windows world.
PC-Tools was my favorite file manager for many years in the DOS era and I
had every version of PC-Tools up to ver 7 or 8 when they suddenly
disappeared. My theory is that they were bought up and used as the basis
for some office package or shell system. By then PC-Tools had grown out to
a shell like Windows and the beginning of an office system, and was maybe
seen as a threat by some big players in the field.
Maybe PC-Tools was bought up and killed off as a potential competitor.

PC-Tools is one of the few DOS programs which cannot be run under windows,
maybe they are using the same shell mechanism so they collide with each
other.

I do know that Central Point was bought out by Symantec back in the 90's
sometime. IMO Symantec took PC tools source code to create Norton
Navigator and possibly a few other tools. I too used PC Tools up to
version 8. It was the definite shell for MS DOS with no others coming
close although Shez was pretty good.

[snip]

 

[Bob Adkins]

I do know that Central Point was bought out by Symantec back in the 90's
sometime. IMO Symantec took PC tools source code to create Norton
Navigator and possibly a few other tools. I too used PC Tools up to
version 8. It was the definite shell for MS DOS with no others coming
close although Shez was pretty good.

I remember both well, and used them. PC utils had a cool backup function.
Shez was quick and light, and Shareware.

Bob

Remove "kins" from address to reply.

 

[john p.]

I do know that Central Point was bought out by Symantec back in the 90's
sometime. IMO Symantec took PC tools source code to create Norton
Navigator and possibly a few other tools. I too used PC Tools up to
version 8. It was the definite shell for MS DOS with no others coming
close although Shez was pretty good.

Central Point utilities saved my bacon on a number of occasions. I'm
sure I still have some old CP floppies around somewhere. My memory is
a little hazy, but I thought Peter Norton bought out CP before
Symantec acquired Norton.

 

[Libor Striz]

I agree. See copy of a previous post of mine below,
with some link for OP to look at.

### Copy <###


Some other filemangers worth looking at:

PabloCommander <http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/commander.html>

A43 <http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/>

TurboNavigator <http://turbonavigator.us/>

It is worth to try also Servant Salamander
by http://www.altap.cz
(czech site, but English pages and app too)

Look for older version 1.5x, the newer ones are shareware.
It cannot compete with TCMD, but for its price
it is pretty enough.