What XDIR has done for me

[Joe Caverly]

Back in 2018,
I purchased a license for V - The File Viewer,
as it could,
at that time,
do more for me than the V File Viewer that is included with TCC.

Previous to the XDIR command,
which is new starting with TCC v35,
I used the following alias to emulate what XDIR now does.

U:\>alias ve
"C:\Program Files\V64\v.exe" "/m:%1|" /o:-d

With TCC v35, I use;

XDIR /z

...to do the same thing.

There are, however,
some short comings with the XDIR command,
versus V

For example,
XDIR does not allow drag-and-drop,
but V does allow drag-and-drop.

Important to note, though,
that XDIR is not meant to replace a file manger.

As Rex Conn has stated previously;

The purpose of XDIR is to NOT be a real file manager.
There's thousands of those out there;
XDIR is intended as a directory navigation tool that has some file management capabilities.

Passing this along for those who want XDIR to do more than it does,
and how the registered version of V - The File Viewer can do that.

Joe