The Norton Commander 5.0
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Welcome to the new Norton Commander 5.0. This guide provides you with:

	* An overview of what's new with Norton Commander

	* A list of enhanced features

What's New in Norton Commander 5.0
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* Drag & Drop 

Drag & Drop support now makes it even easier to manipulate your files between 
panels. You can drag as single file, or groups of files and directories. 

Drag from one panel to another to copy files, or hold down the ALT key to move 
files.

You can even drag files/directories to the button bar at the bottom of the 
screen to invoked a file operation.

* Filters

Norton Commander 5.0 features advanced file selection techniques. File 
selection is now based on Operation Filters that affect all file operations 
like copy, move, synchronise, delete and compress. 

Operation Filters allow the users to specify file selection based on file 
name, date and time, file size and even file attributes. This advanced 
selection criteria is traditionally confined to File Finder utilities, 
however Norton Commander integrates this feature at the heart of 
the Commander kernel making it the best all-round file manager available 
today.

* Synchronise Directories

The Norton Commander makes it easy to synchronise files/directories between 
two or more machines or network volumes. This feature will be particularly 
useful for portable computer users that have to keep copies of Filters.

* Compressed File Viewing

Now you can view the contents of any file contained within a compressed file. 
Simply open the compressed file, select the file and press the View button. 

* Disk Utilities

The Norton Commander adds some useful Disk utilities to extend the 
functionality of the File Manager so that common day-to-day DOS activities 
can be carried out from within the Commander environment.

	<> Format Diskette: 
		Format disks easily without worrying about how to use the DOS 
		format command.

	<> Copy Diskette: 
		Create a disk image and make multiple copies of a disk. Simpler 
		and faster than the DOS copy command.

	<> Label Diskette: 
		Now add a label to any DOS drive using this simple and useful 
		utility.

* Network Utilities

The Norton Commander now lets your perform a variety of operations across a LAN, 
using a simple menu system and a familiar interface. You can send messages, 
view server volume information, attach to or detach from servers, and map or 
unmap drives. 

The utilities are designed for Novell networks supporting Netware 3.x and 
Netware 4.x.

	<> Send Message: 
		Send Messages and review details of users or groups of Users 
		on the LAN.

	<> Attach/Detach Server: 
		Attach to or Detach from a list of Servers easily with out 
		needing complex syntax.

	<> Drive Mappings: 
		Map drives to servers with the click of a button.

	<> Server Information: 
		Provides information regarding all networks on a LAN. 

* File Splitter

The Norton Commander 5.0 features a file Split and Merge utility that allows 
large files be broken down into small ones. Essential if you file wont fit 
on one floppy disk. Split it up over a number of disks and remerge later 
onto another hard disk.

* Disk Cleanup

Clean you hard disk of unwanted files created by other programs such as
readme, autosave and temporary files. Completely configurable to create your
own file sets.

* File Search

The Norton Commander File Finder has been completely rewritten and designed
to provide the following advanced and useful features.

	<> Regular Expressions. You now have greater control in how you 
	   define your search criteria when looking for files. You can 
	   control what files are included and excluded during the search 
	   and locate specific text patterns in files.

	<> File Find Panel. You can send the results of your search 
	   operation to a standard Commander File Panel. This is useful when 
	   you want to perform block operations on a group of files scattered 
	   around different directories on your hard disk.

	<> Duplicate File Searching. You can now search for duplicate files on 
	   your hard disk.

	<> Multiple Search locations. You can search multiple locations for 
	   your files. You can also use environment variables like %PATH% to 
	   guide your file search on your disks.

	<> Commander Line Support. You can launch the Norton Commander to find 
	   essential files using command line switches. They offer the full 
	   flexibility of the menu driven program.

What's enhanced in the Norton Commander 5.0 ?
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* File Attributes

Now you can select multiple files and directories and set the attributes of 
the files using one simple step. 

Useful for marking all files in a nested directory structure as read-only.

* Configuration Panel

Configuration has been moved to one location, making it easier to configure 
screens, panels, screen savers, mouse and video characters.

* System Information

The Norton Commander System Information has been extended to display 
information about memory arrangement, hardware configuration, and CMOS Status.

* File Printing

You can now print the contents of files to a postscript printer. 


* Compression

The Norton Commander 5.0 now compresses up to 40,000 files, using a variety of 
compression programs including ZIP, ARC, ARJ, PAK, LHARC and ZOO.

* Delete Command

An improved Delete command now lets you delete all files in a directory but 
keeps the directory structure intact. Great for developers archiving a 
development project who want to get rid of their MAP and LNK files.

* Configuration

The Configuration of Norton Commander 5.0 has been consolidated into a single, easy-to-use dialog box. 
Through this one interface users can configure the screen colours, confirmation options, compression 
options and printer options for all the Commander utilities. 

One new feature supported in the Norton Commander 5.0 is the ability to switch 
the character set into a semi-graphical one that displays check-boxes and 
radio buttons as they appear in Windows.

* Terminal emulation Program

The terminal emulation program has been modified to provide support for the 
newer, more modern UI of Norton Commander 5.0, with support also provided 
for Keyboard macros, INT-15, and NCSI. The product now also supports data 
connections at up to 115,200 bps, so users with fast modems can avail of the 
speed using this product. Access to CompuServe is improved with support for 
the CompuServe-B file transfer protocol.

* Copy Command

The Norton Commander Copy command has been modified 

	<> Copy newer files only : this can have a dramatic effect on the 
	   overall time to copy and synchronise directories from one machine 
	   to another. Use in conjunction with the new Synchronise directories 
	   command and you have the ideal File Manager for mobile computer 
	   users.

	<> Check the destination disk space prior to starting a copy operation.

* Screen Savers

You can now choose from a selection of 20 text based and graphical screen 
savers.

