With the end of Command Line Week, I wanted to be sure to get in one more article about some phenomenal CLI/TUI applications that are out there. I’ve mentioned each of these over the last few episodes of the podcast, but for those of you who haven’t tuned in yet, here they are!
Oct 22, 2022·edited Oct 22, 2022Liked by Dan Scott
Hi Dan, good article and congratulations on the command line week. DOS is still a very good piece of software . I missed Norton commander on your list and I suggest it's Linux clone MC (midnight commander) on Linux which I use for more than 20 years now, and it's something that I never let out of any Linux installation I put my hands on. It's damn small and comes with its own editor if you need. Talking about editors, MS-DOS Edit is indeed open source now (https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS). MS does not work on the code anymore, but it's free to fork (MIT Lic.); completely in Assembler, maybe one day we can port it to Linux, but it runs under dos-emu if you like. The MS-DOS editor started to be shipped with DOS 5 and was a small version of QBASIC( gorilas.bas!!) after Windows 95 it became a stand-alone program. Good times!
Hi Dan, good article and congratulations on the command line week. DOS is still a very good piece of software . I missed Norton commander on your list and I suggest it's Linux clone MC (midnight commander) on Linux which I use for more than 20 years now, and it's something that I never let out of any Linux installation I put my hands on. It's damn small and comes with its own editor if you need. Talking about editors, MS-DOS Edit is indeed open source now (https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS). MS does not work on the code anymore, but it's free to fork (MIT Lic.); completely in Assembler, maybe one day we can port it to Linux, but it runs under dos-emu if you like. The MS-DOS editor started to be shipped with DOS 5 and was a small version of QBASIC( gorilas.bas!!) after Windows 95 it became a stand-alone program. Good times!