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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Tony Bilbrough wrote:

> I am building a Linux box on a dx 4/100 with 16 Mb RAM.
> It will only run text, but I am hoping to find a simple a gui similar to
> the DR/MS DOS one. [gui might not be the right word here]. Its the sort
> of graphic screen you get when installing Red Hat or when using 'edit'

That comes from the curses/ncurses library.  so if you see something
advertised as an "ncurses based app" it'll look like that.

> in a DOS shell.
> Does any one know of a Linux file manager package that is like the DOS
> XT Gold to use?

I'm not big on filemanagers but have you tried Midnight Commander (mc)? It
seems very powerful (as all the MC supporters have shown me :)

> Perhaps I should say similar interface? I'm not sure of the correct
> terminology here.

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