Nico's Commander was updated to version 5.10a and I @Macarlo tested it on my Windows NT 4.0 Sevrice Pack 5. You can download a trial copy (30 days) from the developer web site.

What is Nico's Commander

Nico's Commander is a Norton Commander like file manager with exciting
features:
- ten or twenty application buttons you can configure to start your
  favorite application with one mouse click, and feed the application
  a file you selected
- user configurable function keys
- file search (with jokers) and search for strings inside files
- zip and unzip with a few clicks of your mouse
- support for RAR, CAB, TAR, GZIP and TZ archives
- directory compare
- file compare
- Explorer-like context menus
- supports FAT32 and NTFS
- show the current date and time in the title bar of the active window
- built-in editor without Notepads limitations
- built-in hex editor
- built-in viewer for text files and for a number of popular graphical
  file formats: JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PCX

- reach icons on your desktop with one mouse click, even if your
  desktop is cluttered with windows
- reach your Control Panel applets with one click of the mouse
- use FTP sites as local disks, with proxy/firewall support
- print ASCII files one page on a sheet (portrait) or two pages on a
  sheet (landscape)
- optional command prompt with command history
- minimize by right clicking on empty space in Nico's Commander's main
  window
- ExitWin button to exit and restart Windows or to shut down or reboot
  your machine
- Esc key can instantly activate your Screen Saver
- Help everywhere.

THE APPLICATIONS BUTTONS

In this dialog window you set the properties of the application that this button starts:

        application name, this will also be the button name

        specification of the executable to start (use the Browse button)

        command line parameters for the application

        working directory: name of the directory to become the current directory at the start of the application

        how to start the application (normal, maximized, minimized).

Tip: if you specify a working directory but no executable to start, the result will be that when you click the button the working directory you specified wil become the current directory in the active file window, and no program will be started.

INSTALLATION/DEINSTALLATION

Run downloaded EXE-file to install. Uninstall via Start - Settings - Configuration -
Add/Remove Programs.

VERSION HISTORY

Version 5.10a:
- bug fixed: directory print only appeared on paper after second print command on some systems
- bug fixed: print directory failed on directories with space character in their name
- bug fixed: drive selection box covered text underneath it on some screen settings
- bug fixed: context menu on FTP directory failed
- bug fixed: incorrect creation date/time in attributes dialog box for directory.

Version 5.10:
- added hex editor
- graphical viewer now scrolls large images
- application buttons and command prompt can now handle multiple selected
  files/directories
- added new symbolic parameter (&af) for application button definition
- you can select font to be used for text in main window
- new menu item: Directory - History (Ctrl+H)
- all menu items can now be assigned to function keys
- you can now specify the external viewer to be used
- case insensitive file compare is now possible
- new menu item: File - Create shortcut
- when selecting files by typing the first character of the name the found
  file will now be the first one in the file window, in stead of the last
  one
- added Browse button in Copy and Rename/Move dialog boxes
- you can now choose your own colors in th

e editor and viewer windows
- new menu item: Settings - Adjust column widths (Ctrl+Shift+Num+) to adjust
  the width of the columns in the active file window to fit their largest
  visible item.

Version 5.02:
- fixed bug which caused error message "invalid archive" while reading Zip
  files made on removable media
- fixed bug which caused "Yes to all" button in overwrite dialog to be
  disabled while zipping directories
- viewer now works as expected on Zip file contents
- doubleclick on divider in column header caused columns to collapse; double
  click will now adjust column width to fit largest string
- go to other file window with cursor left and cursor right key (but tab key
  still works).

Version 5.01:
- fixed bug which sometimes caused error message "a device attached to
  system is not functioning" when clicking on the Control Panel icon in
  the system tray
- fixed bug which sometimes caused error message "system cannot find the
  path specified" and NC being inaccessible when changing removable media
- graphical viewer now accepts graphic files with non standard file name
  extensions
- "yes to all" button wasn't enabled in overwrite dialog while zipping
- "yes to all" reply is now possible while deleting non empty directories.

Version 5.0:
- viewer for text files and a number of graphical formats
- support for RAR, CAB, TAR, GZIP and TZ archives
- proxy server and firewall support for FTP
- reach your Control Panel applets with one click of the mouse
- inproved progress bar when copying two or more files to or from
  an FTP site
- FTP sites are administered under their name, not their address
- specify a login directory for FTP sites
- right click to configure function keys
- swap the two file windows
- new menu choice: change directory (useful for FTP sites)
- newly created directory wil have input focus.

Version 4.10:
- user configurable function keys
- 'Move' and 'Rename' functions now integrated
- possibility to use wildcards in copy, move and rename actions
- 'SendTo' submenu implemented in Explorer-like context menu
- results of directory comparison are shown in file windows, not
  in separate window
- new menu choice: File - Invert selection
- new menu choice: Directory - Print current directory
- new menu choice: Directory - Print directory tree
- selected sort order will be saved over sessions
- 'hidden' and 'system' files and directories now shown in different colors
- 'hidden' and 'system' directories can now be made visible or invisible
- attributes and (in Windows NT) creation date and time of directories
  can be changed
- filenames can now be shown in uppercase and directories in lower

case, or the
  other way around
- fixed bug that caused problems in sorting files and comparing directories
  because of differences between collating and lexicographical order
- fixed bug which caused crash when connected to unknown FTP host type
- fixed bug that caused File - Open archive not to function
- fixed bug that caused an html file to be opened in a new browser, in
  stead of in a new window of the running browser
- selected files will no longer be deselected unexpectedly
- increased performance handling very large directories.

Version 4.03a:
- fixed bug that caused crash on some machines with special drives (i.e. on
  Toshiba Libretto with PCMCIA-coupled floppy drive)

Version 4.03:
- added support for multi-volume zip archives
- progress bar for zip and unzip actions
- added Shift-F3 to edit a new file
- added Shift-F8 and Shift-Del to delete files without sending them
  to the recycle bin
- calculation of diskspace occupied by directory can now be aborted
- changed the way to select files and directories with the keyboard:
  spacebar selects, Ins key selects and goes down one line,
  cursor up/down no longer looses selection
- added keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+F for File Search and Ctrl+Z for Zip
  File
- added some configuration settings for FTP
- temporary FTP transfer for edit or unzip now uses configured file
  transfer type
- fixed bug that hampered FTP use in right pane
- fixed bug that caused problems reading empty floppy disk
- f

ixed bug which caused filenames containing & to be shown with
  underscore
- disk volume labels longer than 13 characters are now processed correctly
- fixed bugs in resizing columns in file windows
- fixed bug that caused nothing to happen when double clicking on
  multimedia file
- fixed bug in move: sometimes overwrite dialog not showed or was
  handled incorrectly.

Version 4.02:
- improved FTP facility:
  * file transfer can now be aborted
  * progress bar for file transfers
  * you can specify type of transfer (ASCII, binary, L8)
  * support for VAX/VMS FTP hosts
  * FTP actions can be logged

Version 4.01:
- completely redesigned user interface: icons, colors, highly configurable
- facility to create self extracting zip archives
- added Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut to switch to command prompt
- added "Select none" button
- choose ANSI or OEM character set when printing or editing
- fixed bug that caused crash when comparing files
- fixed bug that kept subdirectories from being zipped
- fixed bug that kept Tab key from functioning in NT
- improved error checking

CONTACT AUTHOR

Nico Cuppen

E-mail: nico.cuppen@icu.nl

http://www.nico2000.com

@Macarlo, Inc.
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