File Commander is a

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for

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and

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operating systems created and maintained by Brian Havard. It is an enhanced clone of

Norton Commander Norton Commander (NC) is a discontinued prototypical orthodox file manager (OFM), written by John Socha and released by Peter Norton Computing (later acquired in 1990 by the Symantec corporation). NC provides a text-based user interface for ma ...

, originally developed for

but ported to

in 1997 and to

in 2011. Development started in 1993, which makes File Commander one of the oldest surviving text interface file managers (younger than

DOS Navigator DOS Navigator (DN) is an orthodox file manager for DOS, OS/2, and Windows. Influence DOS Navigator is an influential early implementation of orthodox file manager (OFM). By implementing three additional types of virtual file systems (VFS): XTr ...

and

Volkov Commander Volkov Commander (VC) is a file manager for DOS inspired by the Norton Commander. Volkov Commander is purely written in assembly language, and is thus very small (less than 100 KB) and fast. Volkov Commander was written by Vsevolod V. Volkov, a ...

, but older than

FAR Manager Far Manager (short for ''File and ARchive Manager'') is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and is a clone of Norton Commander. Far Manager uses the Win32 console and has a keyboard-oriented user interface (although limited mouse o ...

). Functionality has been greatly extended with features such as support for regular expressions in file selection, a powerful editor with undo/redo capabilities, network awareness, etc. In 1998 the OS/2 version was selected as "The Best Disk/File Utility for OS/2" by the independent OS/2 e-Zine magazine. Although stable releases are infrequent, the program is continuously updated, and current betas are available on th
File Commander Development page
The latest version 2.50 beta is also available for various

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operating systems including

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and

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. File Commander can also run in DOS with the help of HX DOS Extender.

External links

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The Orthodox File Manager (OFM) Paradigm, description of File Commander

References

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