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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.

Its main display provides dual directory view panels that may serve as source and destination of a copy or move operation or just two different views of your files. A panel may also be used to view a directory tree, drive statistics or may be turned off altogether, making visible the output of previously executed commands.

A command line is also provided and operates in conjuction with the directory panels to make it much more powerful than a regular CLI including pasting file names from the panel, a command history recall window and command completion from history.

Main Features

• Built in archive support including archives inside archives to any depth, with ZIP, ARJ, RAR, LZH, ACE, HA, TAR and GZip types currently supported.
• Text mode for speed and other advantages
• Mouse support.
• Long file name support
• Full support for volumes larger than 4GB.
• Online help.
• Many configuration options.
• Colourization of file and directory names by boolean expression.
• Built in file viewer with hex view mode.
• Built in editor with undo/redo and cut/copy/paste ability using the global clipboard.
• Code page translation function in viewer and editor.
• File Find facility combining wildcard file name filters with file contents scanning.
• Calculation of the total disk usage of a directory tree.
• Tree views for quick and easy directory changes.
• Intelligent execution of the different types of executables supported by OS/2 or Windows 95/NT.
• User definable menu including powerful operators such as
  • Run a command once for every tagged file.
  • Automatically create a file containing a list of tagged files.
  • Get input value from the user.
  • List all tagged files in the parameter list, automatically running the command multiple times if the command line gets too long.
• Directory history for changing back to recently viewed directories.
• Easy creation of desktop objects.
• Enhanced wildcard handling including boolean operators (and, or, not, brackets) for combining multiple file name masks.
• Flexible file name filtering.
• Support for 4DOS/4OS2 descriptions
• Supports any number of display columns (minimum 80).
• Start DOS programs with session settings (OS/2 only)

For more information, see:

• Submit or query bug reports in the File Commander Bugzilla database
• File Commander FAQ
• Whats new in V2.20
• Help files for non-English languages
• Development progress
• Register now at BMT Micro (OS/2, Win32).
• Europeans, including non-credit card users, can register at BT Software
• Scandinavians and Germans can register at Berggreen Service with payment in local currency.
• Register at Mensys
• File Commander mailing list
• Other software written or ported by Brian Havard

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