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Would it make sense to include Volkov Commander as a package? It is a shareware and works from 8086 up.

Hello Enness, technically it could totally make sense, yes. VC is a very good, competently designed software. I am not sure however, if the author would agree with VC being re-packaged and distributed in such way. Shareware software often have strict redistribution rules that may be incompatible with repackaging. In the ZIP archive with VC version 4.05 I see this: The Program could be included in CDROM collections, subscription download areas, BBS packages, provided it remains in its complete and unmodified original archive. Any chance you could get in touch with the author about this? Perhaps he would agree to a repackaged distribution of VC for SvarDOS... Side note: there is an ongoing issue between SvarCOM and VC, described here: https://osdn.net/projects/svardos/ticket/45468 I made a couple of attempts to locate the problem, unfortunately without success so far - but it's still high on my list of things to solve. Mateusz

Does not seem to be able to reach the author any more

@Enness Just in case you didn't notice: The SvarDOS repo already contains the doszip and dn2 packages as examples for two-pane file managers.

Few days ago I also added the original Dos Navigator 1.51 release from 1999 to the repo.

> Few days ago I also added the original Dos Navigator 1.51 release from 1999 to the repo.

Thanks! I notice that you have set a hwreq with 386 - are you positive there is no chance DN would run on a pre-386 CPU? I did not see any usual DOS extender there, it is apparently Turbo Pascal code with a couple of assembly modules, so depending on the compilation flags maybe DN would run on a 8086? BTW I have found an interesting discussion about file managers there: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/any-recommendations-for-a-good-dos-file-manager.54342/ Lots of (seemingly good) managers are mentioned. At least some of them could be good candidates for conversion into a SvarDOS package. Mateusz

> are you positive there is no chance DN would run on a pre-386 CPU?

386 is just from the docs. Compiling for pre-386 could be an interesting task, but time is rare.

> BTW I have found an interesting discussion about file managers there:

> https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/any-recommendations-for-a-good-dos-file-manager.54342/

I also list some at https://www.bttr-software.de/links/#fileman

> Lots of (seemingly good) managers are mentioned. At least some of them could be good candidates for conversion into a SvarDOS package.

Yes, and (maybe) no. There are so many out there. Choice is not always good. ;-)