On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:57:39PM -0700, Nick Estes wrote:
> > I'm reviewing a bunch of old text files.  To make the process less tedious,
> > I'd really like an app that shows a file list in a left-side window and has
> > a right-side window that displays the contents of whichever file in the left
> > is selected.  Certainly there must be something like that out there, but
> > I'll be darned if I can find it.  Any leads?

> I don't have a perfect answer for you, but xemacs will get you pretty
> close, you can have a directory listing open side by side with a text
> file; of course you'll need a terabyte of ram just to load it up, but it
> oughta work for what you need.

Xemacs'll work, but if you want something that takes less memory, try
Midnight Commander (mc).  It does exactly what you want.

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