J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Old hands may remember the old file manager utility from DOS days - gave
a graphical (though in character mode) tree representation of the
filesystem, as well as a few utilities. Well, I'd still been using it in
XP - mainly for a _real_ (or more real, anyway) view of what's on the
disc, but also its hex viewer. (I also use its editor - 1-word - to edit
my quotes file; its limit of just under 64k makes me keep the quote file
fresh.)
F*** that. I've got 16,000+ entries in mine.
I'd been disappointed when it wouldn't work under W7, as I'd seen at
work and on my other W7 machine - but delighted to find it _does_ work
on W7-32.
However, it seems to nearly (not quite) rail one of my cores - even when
it's sitting there not actually doing anything! (Just opening it; it
opens in a character mode window.) I hear the fan speed up, and sure
enough, if I look in Task Manager, core 1 or 3 (of 4 virtual cores on
this machine) is very busy. Not flatlining: the graph is going up and
down a lot. Closing XTG - either via its own way, cleanly (Q then Y) or
by clicking on the close button - returns the CPU and fan to normal.
I'm not _bothered_, nor wanting to get into deep diagnostics; however,
it _did_ (and does) puzzle me that an old DOS utility will use so much.
(It's a .com file, not a .exe, if that makes any difference.)
Anyone else use it and noticed this?
My install is 64-bit so I can't check directly on the hardware, but I did
some checking in VMware.
- NT 3.51: Normally almost nothing, with apparently-random spikes to 100%.
- XP 32-bit: 100%.
- 10 32-bit: Fluctates, but generally around 80%.
My only guess is that XTGold doesn't recognize multi-tasking environments
and expects to be the only app running.
There are a few Windows XTree clones that you may want to look into. The two
I'd suggest:
- ZTree, a commercial (US$29.95) work-alike:
http://www.ztree.com/
- UnixTree, a free open-source work-alike (which includes a mostly-
functional Win32 version):
http://www.unixtree.org/
The XTree Fan Page has a list of clones, but for Windows they also recommend
ZTree:
http://www.xtreefanpage.org/lowres/x63clone.htm
Personally, I switched to what's called "orthodox" (or dual-pane) file
managers (i.e. Norton Commander clones) many years ago and I'm much happier
with them. The keyboard shortcuts take some getting used to, but beyond
that, I think they just work better. On Windows I use the old free version
of Servant Salamander (now called Altap Salamander):
https://www.altap.cz/
ftp://ftp.altap.cz/pub/altap/salamand/salam152.zip
....or Midnight Commander everywhere else (which is include with most *nix
systems).
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I figure that if I can get a parser to recognize and deal with I-T-L,
I can get it to do the same with IF-THEN-ELSE. And I can.