![]() For doing this correctly, we were asked to use a program called Norton Commander, a DOS-based program that had a blue screen. ![]() In my first company, the input Word files used to be kept in the company server, and we had to copy files to our local machine, copyedit them, and then copy the edited files back to another location in the server. By that time, PCs were running on Windows. So my first hands-on exposure to a computer was in a company, and only after I entered the editing profession. We never had computers at home in India during the years I did my PhD (early and mid-1990s) research scholars used to write their theses with pen and paper and then go to a typing center to get their theses typed (always through someone these centers had computers that were running on MS DOS). I had a slightly different experience-fortunately-and the reasons for that were just the circumstances. Something comes with the PC and people use it for their day-to-day file management activities. Most people who use a Windows desktop or laptop use the File Explorer (earlier called Windows Explorer) for file management simply because that's what comes inbuilt with Windows. Copyediting editing file management file managers free commander windows file managers writing May 06, 2019
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