> Ironically, the best file viewer I ever used was created for DOS,
> ...
> What we need today is something similar for Java. The viewer
> interface would let you write various types of file
> organiser/viewers, and they would work with the entire library of
> submitted viewers. If they did not, you could always write your own
> code to the viewer interface.
> Viewers are simpler and faster than editors, and can be stripped down
> from what the full editor would display. A viewer only has to render
> the top chunk of a file immediately. It can procrastinate the rest
> till when the user scrolls down.
> Such a tool would let you rapidly review files and delete the
> unwanted files with a single keystroke, or move it off to some attic
> directory.
> The hard part of writing a file organiser is the Viewers. With this
> standard interface anyone could write one to their own particular
> needs, or modify an existing one.
