F, freeware file manager & standalone utilities

Version:

4.70 - 4.71b & 1.60

Release date:

Friday, 1 November, 2002

Home:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171128232314/http://filemanager.free.fr/index.htm

Categories:

Utilities: file management

License:

Freeware

Interface:

VIO

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Michel Normand

Duy Nguyen

Freeware multi-platform text-mode file manager with many features.

Main F functions:

Multiple file windows display;
Full support for ZIP and WPI archives;
Integration with built-in file viewer and editor;
Network support.

The following standalone utilities could be used inside batch file or directly from a prompt without requiring F.

All these utilities use zero as return code upon successful completion, and display a short help on invocation without any parameter. For fmsg/fsend, the user name is taken from f.cfg (USER_NAME keyword) found either from FCFGPATH environment variable, or from the directory where the command is started. Currently the utilities are:

fmsg: send short message to another workstation.
fsend: send a file to another workstation.
fquery: query F status on another workstation.
ffpcopy: upload/download file using FFP protocol.
ffpquery: query outbound/inbound FFP sessions for a given F server.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

ZIP package, download in destination folder (\os2\apps\): the delivered exe is directly executable without specific installation process. See below for download link(s).

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

F, freeware file manager & standalone utilities v. 4.70 (20/12/2017, Duy Nguyen, Michel Normand)
filemanager.free.fr/f.exe
F, freeware file manager & standalone utilities v. 4.79 beta (20/12/2017)
filemanager.free.fr/beta/f.exe
Standalone utilities v. 1.60 (20/2/2000)
filemanager.free.fr/fcmd_os2.zip