![]() ![]() Whenever files are involved, you know eventually the command line will need to be used for something. ![]() Total commander shortcuts windows#Windows Commander would later be renamed to Total Commander – written by Christian Ghisler. The interface was cleanly modelled after the DOS based application called Norton Commander. The program was a cool visual representation of the file system that didn’t force me to click so many times (like I had to in File Manager). I was an avid command line user and I found a great little tool called Windows Commander to manage the growing number of files that easily consumed the little space I have. I was using one of my first computers and it ran Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups) and my hard drive size was in the 200 megabyte range. ![]() So, let me take you back to the early nineties. Very few of the tools I use fit into the category of “That great tool” – one of them, though, is Total Commander. Those are the tools that I’m interested in, and the ones I want to write about. The better of them are ones that provide the kind of flexibility that they become something entirely new. I tend to prefer tools that are as cross-platform as possible and that generally stand the test of time. I use tools for database access, process viewing, registry searching, debugging, error log parsing, mail connections and even four or five different types of FTP servers. I use a heck of allot of tools and utilities. ![]()
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