IBM HandShaker (also known as Connect Commander or CN ) is a file manager for the DOS operating system , developed in 1991 . Had a Russian and English user interface , built-in screensaver , was used as a replacement for DOS Shell by professional programmers , due to the many additional features of the program.
| Ibm handshaker | |
|---|---|
 IBM HandShaker 7.5, IBM DOS 2.1 system diskette , file manager mode with ASCII character table, calendar, and calculator | |
| Type of | File manager |
| Developer | KHEMZ Inc. |
| Written on | Pascal |
| operating system | DOS , OS / 2 |
| Interface languages | Russian , English |
| Latest version | 7.5 - IBM HandShaker 8.0 - Connect Commander ( 1999 - IBM HandShaker 2001 - Connect Commander) |
| License | Freeware |
| Site | infocom.kharkov.ua |
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History
Developed in Kharkov by programmers Jan Balter and Dmitry Orlov [1] since 1991 . The latest version of IBM HandShaker 7.5 was released in 1999 , and the alternative version of Connect Commander 8.0 was released in 2001 .
Description
It was first developed as an integrated environment for developers of embedded system and hardware, but eventually became a file manager with its (albeit rather primitive) scripting language and debugger . Like DOS Navigator , written in Turbo Pascal using Turbo Vision .
Opportunities
- File processor , made in the style of Norton Commander , with advanced functions of processing directories as files and archives as directories; [2]
- Multi-window text editor , comparable in features to MultiEdit ;
- Multi - window HEX file editor ;
- Work with dBase databases, with the ability to search with regular expressions , edit fields, delete records and view memo fields in text and HEX form, put the contents of the fields on the clipboard ;
- Compiler built-in scripting language designed to control text editor and terminal ;
- Keyboard Macro Editor;
- Computer terminal compatible with ANSI.SYS , running in the background ;
- Telephone directory with the possibility of autodialer using a modem ;
- Auxiliary tools ( programmerβs calculator , disassembler , RAM editor, alarm clock , calendar , ASCII table, quasi-background printing system that allows printing with editable graphic fonts , CD player );
- Context-sensitive extensible help system with the ability to search with regular expressions throughout the help file , create your own help files, make links from one help file to another, run external programs from the help system;
- Menu for setting program parameters (colors, working directories, keyboard and mouse mode, and much more);
- View HTML files with the ability to click on hypertext links and automatically convert DOS / WIN / KOI encodings ;
Notes
- β http://www.geocities.ws/Athens/Ithaca/1024/shell.html
- β Optimal placement of selected files when copying to removable media, splitting large files into pieces when copying, flexible resizing of file panels, automatically adjusting the tree file when creating and deleting directories, saving file selection when switching from directory to directory, as well as running external programs , selection and allocation of files during operations with the clipboard, file search by mask, size, date, attributes , contents on all specified disks and inside archives, all file operations with found files, highlighting and sorting file names by specified masks , the ability to expand the directory tree into a complete list of files, a flexible system of history of all input lines, a developed system to launch programs using the mask of the launched file and launch external viewers using the mask of the file being viewed.