Take Command v13 introduced two major UI changes. We talked about one of them (Command Dialogs) in October. This month, we'll introduce you to the VIEW command.
LIST, the text and hex file viewer in Take Command, dates back 20 years to the 4DOS / 4NT days. The internal LIST command is relatively small, fast, handles large files, and you can search using wildcards, hex values, and regular expressions. But LIST has suffered from the inevitable feature creep more than most other internal commands — it was never designed to handle the additional options that users are demanding now. And the advent of Take Command's tabbed windows made LIST’s drawbacks even more pronounced, making it painfully obvious that LIST was still a console mode command that was uncomfortably stuffed into a GUI window.
Rather than spend months rewriting LIST to make a "pretty good" viewer, we decided to go for the best file viewer available for Windows. We licensed the V File Viewer (written by Charles Prineas) and integrated it into Take Command v13 as the VIEW command.
VIEW supports the existing LIST options, and adds hundreds of new features, including:
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Unlimited file sizes
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A toolbar with the commonly used functions
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Text, hex, and combined display modes
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Split windows allow you to view different parts of the same file in separate windows
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Synchronized scrolling
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Rulers (fixed or floating) and gridlines
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Wrap to screen, line length, or word boundary
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Many printing options (including configurable headers and footers, and 2-up printing)
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Configurable keyboard shortcuts
And much, much more. If you haven't tried Take Command v13 or VIEW yet, give it a try -- we think it will become your new favorite command.