Norton Commander
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This article is about the software package. For the motorcycle of the same name, see Norton Commander (motorcycle).
Norton Commander (NC) is a discontinued prototypical orthodox file manager (OFM), written by John Socha and released by Peter Norton Computing (later acquired in 1990 by the Symantec corporation). NC provides a text-based user interface for managing files on top of MS-DOS. It was officially produced between 1986 and 1998. The last MS-DOS version of Norton Commander, 5.51, was released on July 1, 1998.
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Original author(s) | John Socha |
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Initial release | 1986; 38 years ago (1986) |
Final release | 5.51
/ 1 July 1998; 26 years ago (1998-07-01) |
Operating system | MS-DOS |
Type | File manager |
License | Commercial proprietary software |
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A related product, Norton Desktop, a graphical shell for MS-DOS and Windows, succeeded Norton Commander. It came in two variants, Norton Desktop for DOS and Norton Desktop for Windows.