![]() There's no command line (odd omission really), but the Spotlight integration is well done and substitutes for NC's marvelous NCD command, no tree views, and sadly there's no real equivalent to the NC Alt-F10/NCD functionality (see below). TUAW's writers are too young to recall NC, so they didn't mention it, but indeed ForkLift ($30) is an NC clone for OS X. So when TUAW wrote about a "dual pane" file manager for OS X I had to investigate. ![]() It was the progenitor of what's now called an " orthodox file manager" (OFM). NC even has a fan pages and an official history. Norton Commander was like Symantec's MORE 3.1 or GrandView - software so good it cannot be adequately replicated. Others must agree, there've been clones for years, including clones of clones by people who don't remember the original (FileCommander for OS/2 came closest to the original). ![]() Nothing in OS/2, GeoWorks, Commodore, Windows 3, 95/98, NT, 2K, XP, MacOS, OS X, Palm etc. I've never used a file management tool on any OS as good as John Socha's Norton Commander for DOS.
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