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Copyright 1993 Symantec Corp. All Rights Reserved.
NORTON COMMANDER
Version 5.0
Welcome to Norton Commander Version 5.0 !
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Please read this document carefully, it contains important information not
included in the documentation.
Topics covered in this note include:
* Files that come with Norton Commander 5.0
* Memory Requirements
<> Commander Memory Requirements
<> Launching Commander with Small and Tiny memory configurations.
* Compressed File Support
<> Compressing Hidden Files
<> Password protected Compressed files
<> Limitations in Compressed Files
* Viewer Support
<> Internal Viewer
<> Defining Viewers
* Filters
* Commander File Transfer
<> Cloning using SHARE.EXE
<> Pin layout of Commander cables
- Pin layout of the serial cable
- Pin layout of the parallel cable
* Special Characters in the Commander Editor
* Norton Commander Environment Variables
* Limitations in Changing Drives
* Accented characters in file and directory names
* Installing Commander under Windows 3.1
* Datex.p File
* Windows 95 and OS/2 Compatibility
* Copy Diskette Utility
* Playwave Utility
* Telephone Book Conversion Utility (DIR2DIR)
* NC_EXIT Utility
* Novell NDS
* Useful advice when running Commander on a 1MB or less system
* Running Norton Commander from a shared Network Drive
* Creating a user defined tools menu
* Using screen savers under Windows
Memory Requirements
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<> Memory requirements for Commander.
Norton Commander needs at least 512K conventional memory in order to
run all its external viewers. Some of the viewers need additional
memory to run in quick view mode.
<> Launching Commander with Small and Tiny memory configurations
In some low memory situations, you will not be able to quickview
large files using the Commander built-in viewers. In order to help
you get around this problem, Norton Commander 5.0 comes with two
additional memory configurations that can be selected from the
command line. Each memory configuration limits the number of files
that can be stored in each Commander File Panel. The command line
syntax of these memory configurations are :-
Command Line Description
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nc /s Launch Commander with SMALL memory
configuration. Number of files per panel
is 700.
nc /t Launch Commander with TINY memory
configuration. Number of files per panel
is 300.
Compressed File Support
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<> Compressing Hidden Files
If a hidden file is compressed using Norton Commander Compression,
it will loose its hidden file attribute. This is to keep the
Commander Compression File format compatible with PKZIPs. PKZIP at
this time does not support hidden compressed files.
<> Password protected Compressed files
While the Norton Commander Compression Engine is compatible with
PKZIP 1.x and PKZIP 2.x compress file formats, Commander only
allows a single password for each compressed file to be active.
<> Limitations in Compressed Files
If the current panel contains an open compressed file, then it is
not possible to change the drive of that panel. This compressed file
should be closed first and then the drive selected in the normal
manner.
Due to the wide range of different compression utilities on the
market today and the major differences in behaviour, you may find
some features of Norton Commander impossible to implement using your
compression utility. This is especially true of some compression
utilities that do not support the decompressing of files into a
destination location other than the current directory. In addition
to this not all compression utilities support the storing of full
pathnames and directories.
Consult the instructions at the top of the Packer.Set file for ways
to program Commander's compressed file support.
Viewer Support
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<> Internal Viewer
To launch the internal viewer contained within NCMAIN.EXE,
type ALT+F3.
<> Defining Viewers
All viewers that are supported by Norton Commander v5.0 are defined
in the file NC.CFG. You can modify the list of files that are
associated with viewers. For example, if your word processor
documents have a special file extension such as .DCC, then you can
change the list of files that the wpview.exe file handles by simply
adding this file specification to the list of files that are defined
underneath WPVIEW.EXE. For example, the WPVIEW section of NC.CFG
would look similar to :-
~wpview.exe
$*.exe,p
$*.com,p
$*.dll,p
$*.dcc,p <----- Line added here to support
$*.* *.dcc files
Filters
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The definitions for the Panel Filters used in Norton Commander Version 4.0
were stored in a file called NC.CFG. In the new Commander, Panel Filters
(and indeed File Operation Filters) are stored in a binary file called
NC.FIL. You will need to convert your existing Commander 4.0 filters to
this new filter file by creating the filters from within Commander 5.0.
Refer to your User's Guide for instructions on how to define Filters.
Commander File Transfer
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<> Cloning using SHARE.EXE
A problem exists when you are trying to clone to a COM port on a
machine that has SHARE.EXE installed. A conflict exists between the
Clone software opening the device COMX and SHARE granting exclusive
rights to this port to the Clone Bootstrap loader. This results in
sharing violation errors occurring during a cloning session. To get
around this problem use the CTTY AUX command instead of CTTY COM1:.
<> Pin layout of the cables.
You can order a special Commander Cable to link any two computers
together. A special order form is included in the Norton
Commander 5.0 box. Please refer to it for further details on this
offer.
<> Pin layout of the serial cables.
9 - 9 Serial 9 - 25 Serial 25 - 25 Serial
2 ======= 3 2 ======= 2 2 ======== 3
3 ======= 2 3 ======= 3 3 ======== 2
4 ======= 6 4 ======= 6 4 ======== 5
5 ======= 5 5 ======= 7 5 ======== 4
6 ======= 4 6 ======= 20 6 ======== 20
7 ======= 8 7 ======= 5 7 ======== 7
8 ======= 7 8 ======= 4 20 ======== 6
<> Pin layout of the parallel cable.
1 ======= 7
2 ======= 15
3 ======= 13
4 ======= 12
5 ======= 10
6 ======= 11
7 ======= 1
8 ======= 14
9 ======= 16
10 ======= 5
11 ======= 6
12 ======= 4
13 ======= 3
14 ======= 8
15 ======= 2
16 ======= 9
17 ======= 17
18 ======= 18
19 ======= 19
20 ======= 20
21 ======= 21
22 ======= 22
23 ======= 23
24 ======= 24
25 ======= 25
Special Characters in the Commander Editor
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To enter special European characters, it is sometimes necessary to use the
CTRL+Q key first followed by the character you wish to enter. For example, to
enter the German paragraph character, type CTRL+Q followed by SHIFT+3.
Norton Commander Environment Variables
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Norton Commander searches your environment for the following three
environment variables in order to determine where to locate and store
temporary work files :- TEMP, TMP, NC.
Accented characters in file and directory names
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On a Novell network, using NDOS, it is possible to create different files
or directories using upper case or lower case accented characters.
For example :
MD
MD
creates two new directories. For this reason, Commander does not convert
accented characters in file names or directories to upper or lower case.