To answer to you both: The Norton Commander was a popular file manager for DOS, but the idea of the 2 window concept is still used by a lot of software.
On Linux the one I use is Midnight Commander (mc). On Windows there are the 7-zip file manager see http://www.7-zip.org/ (7-zip is also a new compression format which is very good, there exist also a linux command line version) - Speed Commander is also a Windows filemanager. - Atol is based on GTK runs on Linux and Windows (http://atol.sourceforge.net/) but is not written in python or cannot run commands (I also get always error messages at startup that some drives are missing, perhaps my cdrom or my zip drive, but this happens with Gimp too -> so I believe GTK is the problem) But actually I work on Windows, thats why I am searching something which works on windows or better on Windows and Linux Perhaps some Python+wxWindows Application would be best. There exist a port of Atol to python+wxPython on: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxpyatol But the project is stopped and abandonware ... Thanks a lot for now :-) I will have a look on your suggestions. Stephane -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list