bin2txt VS winfile

But search is so slow, no? I hate searching. I even wrote my own binary to text converter just so I don't have to keep waiting for DuckDuckGo's one to load.

echo "text" prints out "text". This is useful with those fancy operators I mentioned earlier. |, for example, takes the output of one program, and puts it in another. One of my programs, for example – bin2txt – is designed to use pipes for input, so to translate some binary to some text, you could use echo "01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01100101 01111000 01110100 00001010"|./bin2txt. Of course, it will also work just running the program and typing in the binary, but that is a less quick and easy for some quick checking.

So would you say that my commenting in bin2txt is good then? Bit manipulation is exactly why I made such ridiculously long comments that the code without them is much smaller. I didn't know bit manipulation that well as the time, so wanted a really detailed explanation of what those parts were doing. I decided I may as well explain detailed reasoning for the rest as well.

Ask and ye shall receive: https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile

File Manager, or winfile.exe, was the predecessor to Explorer's file management aspects. You can use it on Windows 10 and 11 (and all the others) if you want to.

Program Manager, or progman.exe, was the predecessor shell to Explorer. It was included with Windows through Windows XP SP1 before finally being stubbed in SP2. You can probably grab the binary from XP SP1 and run it in newer Windows versions, though.

> Plenty of open source apps are abandoned. The maintainers get tired, too busy, or whatever.

Other people can pick up the baton. For example my window manager of choice is Window Maker which was abandoned for literally years (fortunately since the underlying tech doesn't change every other month, it still kept working) before someone else it picked it up and nowadays there are a few developers working on it.

> If it was open source, the odds are no one would care to take over maintenance (though they could) since it’s basically redundant at this point.

When Microsoft opensourced winfile[0] (the file manager from Win3.x/NT 3.x) some developers did flock to it (i personally even added a small feature to allow for multiple file masks which was merged), so i'm pretty sure the same would happen for an opensourced wordpad.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/winfile

There's always winfile lol. I wish they'd drop the 95 era file explorer source. That was the best one imo.

The ancient winfile (that get revived by microsoft), ctrl+shift drag to make symlink.

Joke comment: WinFile if you do not have Windows 11 22H2.

Here's the WinFile link, enjoy :) - https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile/

Good old Windows File Manager from the early 90s! In the Microsoft Store or github https://github.com/microsoft/winfile