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Offline Thorham

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Re: What Exactly is Dopus?
« on: November 07, 2014, 01:22:46 PM »
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It started out as a directory manager and slowly morphed into an operating system.
You mean a desktop replacement. Dopus isn't even remotely what you'd call an operating system. Desktop != operating system.
 

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Re: What Exactly is Dopus?
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2014, 02:32:13 PM »
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Its a wrapper that sits on top of Workbench, adding functionality.
No, it's not. It's a file manager that can be used as a Workbench replacement. It doesn't wrap anything, and you don't have to use it that way. I've got mine set up to work like Dopus 4.
 

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Re: What Exactly is Dopus?
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2014, 01:20:19 PM »
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Like another poster, I never could get comfortable with Dopus 5.x.  I believe it was billed as a Workbench replacement.
People keep saying that, but this is an optional mode. In fact...

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Dopus 4.1x, is the classic DIR utility, an assistant to Workbench.
... you can configure it to be just that:



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Dopus can bog down while reading really large directories.
That's probably Dopus4. It uses a crap sorting algorithm. Dopus5 is MUCH faster for large directories. It's actually the reason I switched from 4 to 5.