Re: XTree Gold substitutes.

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Michael

I don't use ZTree regularly, but as I recall it was virtually identical to
XTree Gold, which I did use all the time until Win9x. It is small enough to
fit onto a single 1.44M floppy. My zipped version is 341kB.

Paul Breeze




>   Thanks, Paul; that does sound interesting. Actually I think I do
have that
> somewhere: it was one of those shareware disks I found at one of those
Sunday
> computer markets, and I saw it at a time when I was still using XTree Gold
and
> didn't expect to need anything more; but for $2 or so I was curious enough
to
> see how good it would be to buy it - but in the end I never got round to
looking
> at it. (I bought shareware crazily at that time, mostly DOS stuff, and
have
> perhaps a couple of hundred disks.)
>   Could this be the one you mean? It is only on a single 1.44 Mb.
floppy
> disk, so it obviously can't be a huge program. (Could be zipped or
compressed
> on that disk though - I don't remember.)
>   Is it really as good as XTree Gold? I somehow have the feeling that
if
> something is shareware you can pick up for a few dollars, it somehow can't
be
> all that good, because you only get what you pay for. The problem with
using
> such a good program as XTree Gold is that you get spoilt: you expect very
high
> standards of other programs that won't often be met, and if the good
program
> nevertheless turns out to be inadequate in some particular way, it'll be
very
> difficult to find a good substitute, and very difficult to accept and use
> something inferior.
>   (Using Windows Explorer after XTree Gold really makes me squirm. But
of
> course even a wonderful program like XTree Gold can't be criticized for
failing
> to anticipate long file-names - a dumb change if ever I saw one. Who
wants to
> have to contantly type 20- or 40-character file-names? Perhaps, in
hindsight,
> the limit could have been a bit more generous than 8 characters - but I
don't
> find that limitation burdensome enough to want to disrupt everything by
> introducing the longer ones. Long file-names are one of the biggest
headaches
> in my computer life these days.)
>   Given that I've used that dinosaur MultiMate for maybe 12 years (I've
got a
> friend who finds that endlessly funny and laughs at it, and he calls the
program
> "Mutilate" and tells me to get a *real* word-processor), I suspect if I
change
> to XY-Write, I'll probably be with it for life. Would that be unusual?
>
>             Regards,
>              Michael Edwards.
>
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