Talk:Norton Commander

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Norton Commander 2.01 for Windows is, essentially not NC 5.5 for DOS, the last true version of NC that piggy-backed on DOS and relayed DOS commands directly. It is therefore misleading to say that development continued until 1999. It is common knowledge that when Windows 95 hit the market, Symantec nearly pulled the plug on NC, to pull it finally in 1998. --NeoThe1 05:45, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

The latest and unfortunately, last version of Norton Commander was 5.5. It added Long Filenames Support (in Windows 9x/ME DOS prompt or with DOSLFN driver in plain DOS).

NC 5.5 for DOS is considered "abandonware" today, and was unavailable on internet for long time. But now hopefully Abandonia recently began to provide NC 5.5 English on their internet site.

I was recently shocked, when I was given a copy of NC 5.5, apparently released in 1998 and with LFN support. It is, however, extremely buggy, crashes a lot and is extremely slow, but only on NT systems. If anyone is interested in acquiring a copy, however, drop me a line by e-mail, or look at Abandonia.--NeoThe1 20:42, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

This article over-uses acronyms. boffy_b 00:37, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Abandonia recently began to provide localized versions of *.IMG copies of original NC 5.5 for DOS installation floppy disks in English, German, Russian and Polish language versions. The same happened with Vetusware abandonware site, but too with NC 2.01 for Windows.