My chiropractor is still using Medi-Soft on his 286-10MHz with 512-Kbit RAM and an old 40-Mbyte drive, running DOS 5.
It sounds like the Chiropractor you're talking about is my father.
But FWIW, vertical-market apps are not cheap, and for the medical market (with which Chiropractic shares the same insurance-billing related processes), there's an expectation that you'll have big big $$$ to burn (upgrades aren't much cheaper than outright purchases). My dad practices part-time out of his home, and for him, if it ain't broke, it don't need fixin.
For years, I could not have functioned using DOS (or Win 3.1) without NC.
Clearly it was getting long in the tooth, and I was fortunate some years ago to run across a SUPERIOR native Win32 app patterned after NC called "Total Commander". It's the only shareware program I've ever registered, and I've gotten far more than my money's worth. Though it's a GUI app, you can drive it totally from the keyboard. It's well maintained, and some new features are still being added. I rate it A+++.
I wish there was a Linux version of Total Commander. I've tried (and occasionally still use) Midnight Commander, but I'm a Linux newbie, and lack of consistent terminal behavior makes MC operate inconsistently for me. A Linux native GUI version of MC (or Total Commander) would be nice.
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It sounds like the Chiropractor you're talking about is my father. But FWIW, vertical-market apps are not cheap, and for the medical market (with which Chiropractic shares the same insurance-billing related processes), there's an expectation that you'll have big big $$$ to burn (upgrades aren't much cheaper than outright purchases). My dad practices part-time out of his home, and for him, if it ain't broke, it don't need fixin.
For years, I could not have functioned using DOS (or Win 3.1) without NC.
Clearly it was getting long in the tooth, and I was fortunate some years ago to run across a SUPERIOR native Win32 app patterned after NC called "Total Commander". It's the only shareware program I've ever registered, and I've gotten far more than my money's worth. Though it's a GUI app, you can drive it totally from the keyboard. It's well maintained, and some new features are still being added. I rate it A+++.
I wish there was a Linux version of Total Commander. I've tried (and occasionally still use) Midnight Commander, but I'm a Linux newbie, and lack of consistent terminal behavior makes MC operate inconsistently for me. A Linux native GUI version of MC (or Total Commander) would be nice.