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Date:	Thu, 13 May 2004 16:20:29 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: ZIP problem, file managers

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J. R. Fox wrote:

>>If you'd like to try out the new open source FM/2, it is available.
>>Steven posted it to Hobbes. Although I'm a satisfied ZTREE user,
>>as is Steven, FM/2 is a very intersting File Manager. You should
>>at least try it one time. Archive handling is just one feature
>>of the program.
>
> I think this is the program Walter Metcalf reviewed some years back,
> when he had an OS/2 section on ABOUT.COM. It took Walter three
> substantial newsletter editions to really cover the program. My
> impression from reading just the first of those columns was that FM/2
> must have *several times* the array of features of ZTree. Since ZTree
> does everything that matters to me, in terms of file management, and
> I've never even mastered all of the stuff that it does offer, I really had
> little incentive to explore a much more muscular program in that same
> category.

I prefer FC/2 for it's Zip handling and search function. Also being
text based I think it is more efficient to use. However, that may also
account for it's weak link to the clipboard.

For cut-and-paste I use EF Commander.

For moving tens of gigs of stuff between partitions, especially over the
net, I like Larson Commander for it's prechecking and statistics.

Ray

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