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A recreation of the classic Dos Navigator (yes, via AI)
« on: July 09, 2026, 04:12:18 pm »
For quite a while I've been using еру original DOS Navigator github repo as s benchmark for various llm agents. With a simple prompt: here is a good old code, make it a modern project, compilled with FPC. Recently got a good result: https://github.com/GregoryPletnev/dn . Guess the model...

+ linux quick install:
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  1. curl -fsSL https://dn.pletnev.biz/install.sh | bash
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Re: A recreation of the classic Dos Navigator (yes, via AI)
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2026, 04:26:27 pm »
I guess Claude?
Anyway, very good example of the use of ncurses, but I would prefer to implement it using FreeVision since that has no dependencies whatever. Claude can do that too......
Certainly DeepSeek can.
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Re: A recreation of the classic Dos Navigator (yes, via AI)
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2026, 04:38:50 pm »
Is it possible to 'recreate' the same but via GUI engine (anything: LCL, mseGUI, but LCL is better - more components). With GUI approach, later you can add picture viewer (F3 and QuickView). With GUI, later you can add internal editor based in SynEdit / or better ATSynEdit.

Maybe possible but such project is not interesting. Because we have Double Commander with pic-viewer and SynEdit editor.

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Re: A recreation of the classic Dos Navigator (yes, via AI)
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2026, 04:45:58 pm »
Maybe possible but such project is not interesting. Because we have Double Commander with pic-viewer and SynEdit editor.
Spam, Alex  :D ;D

But yes, there are much better alternatives like yours.
It is nice to have though: it works even if the installation has no graphical user interface (Like most of my Linuxes, because they are servers....).
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Re: A recreation of the classic Dos Navigator (yes, via AI)
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2026, 08:50:58 pm »
.. such project is not interesting. Because we have Double Commander with pic-viewer and SynEdit editor.

show me the way to run DC in pure console shell )

I use DC  on daily basis. It is a  great tool. But not for text shell or remote shell.

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Re: A recreation of the classic Dos Navigator (yes, via AI)
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2026, 08:53:45 pm »
I guess Claude?
Right. Fable.

DeepSeek failed btw
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