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, 22/5/2024, 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 f0e0b9c899ef7c437cc321437d02b264af783c1f Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-04-26 16:13:44 Unix: Fix inconsistencies in calculating the character cell size which would cause underscores and character descenders to get chopped off at some font sizes. commit d8a918ee6d1af8573c8db468dc1d23447ae2eb44 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-04-23 19:25:33 Unix: Draw some more box drawing characters directly instead of rendering as text (light, medium & dark "shade" characters) for better looking progress bars. commit dfaa339b64429ea2c50be0b1eef70fa8da37d5dd Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-04-15 16:58:51 Unix: Switch to using Pango to render text instead of Cairo's built in "toy" text renderer. commit d0f56d100eecf3203f425b62bd6a176221eec76d Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-04-10 16:16:25 Make the horizontal lines on the Info panel join up properly with the window border. commit dbcc9ee8ad43d9b7377e02425fa2f208d3a519d0 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-04-10 14:59:29 Unix: Draw the box characters manually rather than rendering the text characters to ensure they always join up properly regardless of configured font. commit 0cfd307d356eae7deebbf15155fdaf38443910ef Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-03-20 12:03:17 Editor: Allow adding text by typing or pasting if the line is already 64k characters long. commit 10550ab37cf5d900ab531d556fe0269e52d44ea7 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-03-01 14:15:04 Editor: Allow Ctrl-Z/Ctrl-Shift-Z to be used for undo/redo. commit 3f97ab33846843b47f787c79ee139cbd87bed458 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-02-23 23:20:27 Linux: Fix fc-remote failing to start after last few changes to pty handling. commit 0214ead13053f9f2de45b35d2370c3833ef9bf77 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-02-22 14:37:39 Unix: In fc-remote, don't fork() to give up process group leader status commit 7c387ed81d533ff1c2f0009f8e6c0092da09ef9d Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-02-18 17:34:29 Linux: Fix executing commands from an fcl started from a command line. commit a30132aa9298faa03dd987b117147f1708fc72d7 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-09-28 14:23:32 Revamp of Linux console: - Update gtkmm from 2.4 to 3.0 - Paint text using pre-rendered character tiles. This ensures all characters are draw with equal width/height, fixing issues with non-monospaced font substitutions messing up text alignment. - Line drawing characters are now rendered without anti-aliasing so they join up cleanly. - Scrolling large amounts of text is currently quite a bit slower than before but only noticable if ScrollDelay=0 or running something like cat very_large_text_file.txt commit 08f547020dddef53f45919521a43b30f7e8aba20 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-02-15 09:57:01 Bump copyright year to 2024. commit a3bf025f31b569405e0c53755a20b448e4691d14 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-02-08 18:10:28 Linux: Further tweaks to process pty handling that enables sudo to recognise that it's already been authorised recently by maintaining fcl as the session leader. Processes that detach themselves like sshfs, while they survive being launched, die when fcl exits unless nohup is used. commit 3b35691cbc13d4e230a271a551befb1d303865a2 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-02-08 13:26:45 Fix uninitialised textmode variable after using fdopen(). Was harmless but noticed by valgrind. commit 6c4ee5bd6e2a480fa896c789ae424bfbb5542b64 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2024-02-08 13:25:10 Linux: Tweak process session handling to hopefully fix cases where child processes that detach by forking after being launched by FC would immediately die. commit 4860f2b72c4720e7733d2dd1bc4929cc986deef6 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-12-25 20:52:54 Minor documentation fix for scripting comparison operators. commit 75fefc3e4a890f7acf9675c0190d3e4c83575f78 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-12-25 20:51:55 Unix: Make deleting a large number file files faster by not updating the screen for every file deleted. Instead, paint the screen in another thread with the current file when triggered. commit d64c31a499d3be51219aa903e296b7afba5b121b Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-11-18 23:26:08 Fix info panel reported total compressed size (and compression percentage) for tar/zstd files. commit 1832e2b1e6308991a22da364b7cdca3f42f7a562 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-10-25 14:18:55 Linux: Include extended attributes in File Information dialog. commit 97f811c7a52af88c3fe4fdffca73d4f4ae4c8a60 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-09-26 21:34:24 Unix: Fix files & directories with invalid UTF-8 not showing up in panels. commit ba8693aac7e3140ddbc6ff8cf804afd69ae1156e Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-09-26 20:26:50 Unix: Fix incorrect "Directory does not exist" when bulk renaming in the root directory. commit 4c8ca0e82ed4755229b99280608f90d9208ba4b9 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-08-24 12:53:25 Recognise .zstd as an extension for a zstd compressed file as well as .zst when showing the name of the file "inside" a zstd archive. commit f024b4b66e31b4aacd0d6e62178950857f843c92 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-08-24 12:37:07 Add mouse wheel scrolling in scroll back viewer. commit 4ce53861b5d4468c1124f8e54cfc8b778ee9ccf0 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-08-24 12:32:52 Unix: Add MountPointIncludeDevice option which is the logical opposite of MountPointExcludeDevice. This can be used to avoid double negative logic when you want to specify what to include rather than exclude. commit ffda853e9cc5d3d317efa5f0f9876ff767cc8309 Author: Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au> Date: 2023-04-24 19:34:21 Fix screen corruption with scrollback, especially when using fc-remote.
 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: 13/06/2024 - 05:30

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