For all those that have never seen what the greatest file manager
of all times looks like here is a screen capture of XTree for Linux
running in a Xterm window.

All the functions you see at the bottom of the screen
can be done with a single keystroke. Many more can be done with
just two keystrokes. It will do nothing but get even better
with time. MS Windows set us back ten years.

It looks even better in a simple Linux character terminal.

I'm jazzed.

Paul Lamar

Paul, I am curious to see your computer set up sometime.  It is clear from reading the list you can access a lot of data quickly.

Right now I have a Netscape Communicator question.  Can you tell me how to use it to email 25 plus people at once?  I used to paste all the names  one by one into one address field separated by spaces and commas, but now it just seems to crash when I try it.  Surely there is some funtion for doing this that I have overlooked?  I run Macs if that makes a difference.

TIA,

Hans

No problem Hans. In Messenger > Communicator > Address Book > left box and
click on Personal Address Book with right mouse button.
Select "New List" and give it a name such as "Friends". Then select and drag all the
addresses you want in that list over to the "Friends" list. The name of that
list (Friends) will now show up in your main address book list and you can select
"Friends" and either send messages as copies to all or blind carbon copies
to all.

XTree is so powerful I can look in anyone of a number of directories for
graphics and view them to quickly find what I am looking for. Just in
my news letter directory tree structure alone I have 8,000 files.
In complete Linux there are probably close to 100,000 files. 
I can rapidly scroll through dozens of subdiretories by using the down or
up cursor keys. I can instantly sort these files by anyone of several 
criteria such as name, type or date. I can instantly view them with one key 
stroke to be sure the graphic is what I think it is. I can edit text 
files with one keystroke. I can view text files with a hex viewer for 
hidden control characters. I can move, delete or copy a whole groups of files 
by tagging them and and specifying a destination. Windows Explorer is a  
lame and excruciatingly slow, tedious to use, rip off copy of XTree.

I really don't see how I could do this newsletter without XTree
or YTree which is not quite as good. It would take me ten times
longer in Windows. If I had to use Windows I flat would not do it.

Paul Lamar
 
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