re please help an amiga user find comfort in windows in article t ada og fitz tc cornell edu stlombo eos acm rpi edu steve j lombardi writes from stlombo eos acm rpi edu steve j lombardi subject please help an amiga user find comfort in windows date may gmt by night i m an amiga user by day i work with windows i d be much more comfortable in windows if i had two things a good personal information manager you know a calendar address book reminder list etc rolled into one clean interface a good file manager microsofts is very poor by my standards how about one that has a left and right window and allows file operations between them being able to launch programs from the same interface would be nice as well as text reading and graphics viewing those who are familiar with directory opus on the amiga know what i m looking for i have written the file manager hfm wich has two windows which compare the files in two directorys to find out wether there are equal or similar files the most important operations copy move delete show the file start a progam navigate in the directory tree can be invoked by dragging a directory entry with the mouse this is very convenient because the selection of the file and the operation to be performed occur in one move for bitmap graphic viewing the program vpic can be integrated for spreadsheat and database files i use the view program from pctools hfm can be configured to use arbitrary viewers to show special data formats it does also present archives from pkzip etc as simulated subdirectorys this filemanager has a somewhat non standart user interface but it is very convienient to use and is the prefered file manager in several labs in our university the drawback of this filemanager is it s still a dos program and the development of a windows version has not yet begun i use the program package run zip where run tells its windows companion sched exe which windows program should be started in this way you can start a windows program from a dosbox the new version to be released soon includes a new command for automating this windows program start ftp archives for the mentioned programs all these archives have several mirror sites simtel oak oakland edu filutl hfm zip gif vpic e zip garbo garbo uwasa fi dirutil hfm zip cica ftp cica indiana edu util run zip andreas helke molekulare genetik universitaet heidelberg germany email un ef genius embnet dkfz heidelberg de the header of this posting does not contain a valid smtp mail address
