File Commander/2

Version: 
2.40
Release date: 
Tuesday, 1 September, 1998
Price: 
A$29 (US$29)

License:

Interface:

Authors/Port authors:

File Commander is a 32 bit text mode file manager and shell that allows you to locate, copy, move, delete, view, edit and execute your files in a quick, convenient and customizable manner.

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

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Online documentation:

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

File Commander/2 v. 2.50 (latest snapshot from unstable branch, 28/1/2026, Brian Havard) Readme/What's new
File Commander development snapshot versions ============================================ Warning: This code is likely to be completely untested. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Please do not use this code unless you make regular backups and wouldn't mind too much if your entire hard drive was wiped. It is likely to contain bugs, have some functions broken and contain partially implemented features. commit 1d88e8b8c5a0db4362ed28de42757535c9b5cee4 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2026-01-27 18:35:49 Fix for colour corruption in fc-remote. commit 7780dab8cce53e1fcbf6e135adb47e47304fb03b Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2026-01-26 12:59:12 Add ability to set colours in the CommandPrompt. Syntax is %c(colour string) where "colour string" has the same syntax as used in the [Colours] section of the ini file. %c() or %c without brackets resets the colour to the standard command line colour. commit 6048a7aebd51ee190fac09de1e51422180f475f3 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2026-01-18 13:03:51 Make command prompt configurable: - New configuration directive CommandPrompt. - Supports %u %h and %p macros for user, hostname and path. - Default is %p> to match previous fixed format. commit 5216726291ae68efdb2c783c0e4d059bf739b59d Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2025-12-28 15:45:05 Unix: Small optimisation when opening a file, using O_CLOEXEC option to open() instead of fcntl() with FD_CLOEXEC afterwards. Gives a slight speed improvement copying a large tree. commit af474784b003319da978f8922d3a807bf7be0545 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2025-12-28 15:40:05 Clean out some code that's been unused since the Linux console revamp. commit 91ca00f50f258d74e1ba4b885ceea5bd1a96f4b4 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2025-12-28 15:17:24 Unix: Improve speed copying a large number of small files by optimising GetFileAttr() implementation and caching result of getuid()/getgid(). commit 4beb042a505ffeb58f50466b9a95a40604152bb8 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2025-12-12 22:27:05 Unix: - Fix mouse behaviour when running under Wayland. - Fix right mouse button drag selecting of files. commit d11c67984aee736eee79215f586e767bf894c1d9 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2025-12-07 14:31:47 Add ability to match multiple path segments in File Find. incorrect copy/move destination.
 silk.apana.org.au/pub/fc2/fc2_250-dev.zip  local copy
File Commander/2 v. 2.40 (German, 11/3/2011, Joerg Riemer) Readme/What's new
These are help files in languages other than English contributed by File Commander users.
 silk.apana.org.au/download/german2_240.zip  local copy
File Commander/2 v. 2.40 (3/3/2010, Brian Havard) Readme/What's new
New in File Commander/2 v2.40 ============================= New Features o Support includes in user menu files. o Syntax highlighting in the viewer. o Viewer and editor support for Unicode text files. o Support for 7zip archives. o Support for bzip2 files. o File Information display (Ctrl-I) shows complete file metadata. o Ctrl-Shift-E to eject removable media & Ctrl-Shift-L to load. Minor Enhancements o Change the search match highlight colour in the viewer from "Menu Bar" to "Highlight" which is consistent with the editor and more sensible. o Preserve the case of environment variable names.  Case insensitive matching is now Unicode based so will work with all languages. o Allow re-sorting of File Find results before search has finished. o Use a separate thread to update the file copy progress box to reduce flicker and improve copy speed. o Editor: line length limit of 64kB removed. o Added new syntax highlighting directive, "statechange" which allows more flexible state transitions. o Added includes in syntax defintion file. o Add support for Unicode file names in RAR archives. o TAR file support improvements - Fix checksum calculation when there are bytes in the header >127. - Interpret file names as UTF-8. o Added field in File Find to specify the code page used when searching files for the "Containing" string. o Copy/Move: Add ability to specify overwrite mode in the initial dialog so that you don't have to wait for the first collision to occur. o Add !lf operator to provide a list of tagged files with their full path. o Add !tf (tagged file with full path). o Add ability to remove an entry from command history with Delete key. o Syntax Highlighter: Add /w flag for syntax states of "word scope" to assist with LISP keywords. o Syntax Highlighter: Enable word characters to be redefined for each state. Bug Fixes o User Menu: Make menu item hot key work if specified in lower case in the mnu file. This used to work in 2.20 but was broken while adding support for sub-menus. o Fix display of hex view when code page translation is active. Was "translating" the vertical bar separators. o Fix file copy ETA overflowing copy progress dialog & causing screen corruption when a huge file copy starts off slowly. o In Change Case, mixed mode should not capitalise the character after an apostrophe. o In viewer, fix background colour of line continuation markers (right arrow at the end of a line that's longer than the window when unwrapped). o Multi-file search/replace confirmation prompt, extend box width if necessary to fit the text values and don't overflow box if text still won't fit. o Fix !F when opposite panel is showing an archive's contents. o Fix !t behaviour in archives.
 silk.apana.org.au/pub/fc2/fc2_240.zip  local copy
File Commander WPS Plugin (16/3/2000, Sergey Posokhov)
 hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/shell/fc2wps.zip  local copy
Record updated last time on: 30/01/2026 - 05:53

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