Desktop2

DESKTOP is considerably within the center between MS-Home windows and Norton Commander™, and primarily consists of the next parts:

• Hierarchical program supervisor
• enables you to group your software program and paperwork collectively by subjects
• helps a number of layers
• consists of over 100 ready-to-use icons (MS-Home windows Icon format)
• Visible Schnauzer for the icons
• Refined file supervisor
• in depth Drag&Drop performance
• all capabilities of file and listing administration
• digital listing home windows
• disk operations, akin to:
• Format, Copy, Examine, Full&Fast Erase, Recuperate, Confirm …
• Seek for recordsdata on drives
• Establish, Present FAT
• Block-oriented editor
• Minimize, Copy, Paste
• shares the clipboard with the opposite text-fields in DESKTOP
• The inevitable CD participant
• Calculator
• Display screen savers
• Config software
• and so forth.

Everybody likes screenshots: (click on to enlarge)

• IBM PC with 286 processor or higher
• VGA graphics card
• 640 KByte RAM (2 MB really useful)
• DOS 3.3 or larger
• Mouse and operating mouse driver
• Prolonged Reminiscence can also be used if out there (requires HIMEM.SYS)

Simply click on on one of many hyperlinks within the Prepared-to-install part to obtain a compressed copy of the distribution disk. Earlier than you could begin to set up DESKTOP, you might want to unpack the recordsdata (e.g. pkunzip -d dsk2-lang.zip) in a short lived listing, akin to C:TEMP. After that, simply turn into this listing and key in INSTALL. The set up program launches and tells you what to do subsequent.

The command to begin DESKTOP after the set up is DBD.BAT.

• Prepared-to-install launch of DESKTOP
• Full supply code of DESKTOP (Borland C++ 3.1 & TASM required)
• Consumer’s Information to DESKTOP

As an alternative of preying how nice and helpful this program is, I made a decision to let the customers inform you what they give thought to DESKTOP2 😉 :

i like your gui!!! it is nice! my solely downside is that i can not learn german so i’m compelled to navigate utilizing both trial-and-error or my trusty german-english dictionary (which isn’t properly outfitted at translating pc jargon!!) anyway, that is in all probability a misplaced trigger and that i perceive you not eager to undergo all of the hassel of translating it — i used to be simply questioning!! however all the identical, nice job!! it is a fantastic piece of software program!!

Michael Moore

I got here throughout your “Desktop” program and thought it was glorious. Nevertheless, regardless of my title, I do not communicate German! Which is a pity as a result of “desktop” is the very best DOS shell and a greater file supervisor than Home windows FileManager or Explorer.

Okay.H. von Kaufmann

I’ve simply downloaded a duplicate of Desktop v2.61 and located this to be a wonderful program. Sustain the nice work.

Pete Edwards

The English language launch (1998) is because of the nice job of the fellows listed beneath:

• Sarah Bown
• Catfish (Nathan Stanley)
• Pop (Paul Stanley)
• Mark Ray