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.
It's 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.
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Besides FC/2 and FC/W alpha versions, you will also find the current production releases.
File Commander Version 2.20 is currently in alpha testing. If you'd like to try out the current alpha code you can download
Description here may not be updated (because I do it by hands :-)), but files updated automatically!
When reporting bugs, please include the version number (listed on the Info panel) and whether you're running OS/2, Windows NT or Windows 95/98.
Here's a history of changes to the alpha code.
| Fixed / Added On | Bug / New feature |
|---|
| 2001-02-23 | Alpha 10 released |
| 2001-02-23 | Fix handling of RAR files created on a unix host. |
| 2001-02-19 | Only treat $view & $edit as internal commands. Anything else starting with a $ is executed as normal. |
| 2001-02-17 | Add command history reverse search function with Shift-Ctrl-J/Enter |
| 2001-02-17 | Add [ Dir Hist ] button on copy/move dialogs that allow the target directory to be set to a recently visited location. |
| 2001-02-14 | Stop cygwin programs complaining that they can't distinguish between stdout and stderr. |
| 2001-01-21 | When a file name won't fit in the space available on a panel, keep the extension visible. |
| 2001-01-08 | Add support for Win2K's directory mount points when getting disk space. |
| 2000-12-07 | Alpha 9 released |
| 2000-12-06 | Fix crash after deleting enough files to empty the right column of a multi-column panel & scrolling up. |
| 2000-12-06 | When editing a file from the search results, place the cursor at the start of the matched word even if the file has a previous stored position. |
| 2000-11-13 | When scrolling across to make a search match visible, don't assume 80 columns. |
| 2000-11-13 | Fix it so that directory entries are removed from the File Find panel after being deleted. |
| 2000-11-01 | Undoing deletion of a whole line or more while code page translation is enabled would incorrectly translate restored text. |
| 2000-10-30 | Directory Compare: Make mask expressions work that use attributes other than file name. (%age, %size etc) |
| 2000-10-30 | Make it possible to abort a directory compare when comparing file contents. |
| 2000-10-23 | Add bookmarking facility to editor using Ctrl-Shift-[Num 0-9] and Ctrl-[Num 0-9]. |
| 2000-10-23 | Alpha 8 released |
| 2000-10-19 | NT only: Prevent errors being reported when copying directorys to a file system that doesn't support backup semantics flag (esp Netware w/MS client). |
| 2000-10-19 | Provide built-in commands $view and $edit to access the internal viewer & editor. |
| 2000-10-09 | Fix redirection of input/output from/to a quoted file name. |
| 2000-10-09 | Fix extracting tagged files for subdirectories inside TAR archives. The tar program requires /'s in the list file. |
| 2000-10-05 | Fix bug where using Ctrl-Enter on an empty field in the tree popup would put the cursor out of the input box. |
| 2000-10-05 | Fix crash in Brief-Wide view, clicking mouse on right border of a panel. |
| 2000-09-18 | Fix bug where the handling of leading ./ on paths in archives didn't work if there were no other /'s in the path. |
| 2000-08-28 | Alpha 7 released |
| 2000-08-26 | Fix crash if EA data query appears to succeed but invalid data is returned. Caused crash when renaming files on NFS & possibly FTPFS drives. |
| 2000-08-07 | Viewer: Make all keys properly functional while in follow mode. |
| 2000-08-07 | Avoid using 64bit file functions on Warp 4 FP13+, require v4.5+ |
| 2000-08-07 | Make F3 on a directory do the same as Ctrl-Q |
| 2000-08-07 | Add a separate section for directory entry colourization. |
| 2000-08-07 | Work with tars where the size field doesn't have a trailing space. |
| 2000-07-27 | Fix item count on Left/Right menus. Wasn't showing "Drive" item after addition of Brief-Wide |
| 2000-07-19 | Alpha 6 released |
| 2000-07-19 | Fixed crash painting panel in Tree view |
| 2000-07-18 | Alpha 5 released |
| 2000-07-18 | Don't apply colourization to directory names. |
| 2000-07-18 | Win32: Handle failure of GetVolumeInformation() better (don't always case filter). |
| 2000-07-18 | Allow TAB & Ctrl-PageUp when both panels are off. |
| 2000-07-17 | In Win32 GetWin() get text a line at a time to work around limitation of ReadConsoleOutput(). |
| 2000-07-17 | Fix stack corruption when painting FULL detail panel. |
| 2000-07-15 | Update details of a viewed file. |
| 2000-07-15 | Make Alt-\ work in Copy/Move dialog, allowing selection of a recently visited directory as the target of the copy/move. |
| 2000-07-15 | Make Ctrl-Shift-F/J work in File Find result list. |
| 2000-07-13 | Alpha 4 released |
| 2000-07-13 | Make column separator lines consistently the same colour, regardless of the text around it. |
| 2000-07-13 | Make panels work nicely at any width, not just 80/132 columns. |
| 2000-07-09 | Adjust hex view layout to allow 8 digit offset. |
| 2000-07-09 | Support files >2GB in viewer. |
| 2000-07-09 | OS/2: Support copying files >2GB on OS/2 versions that support 64 bit file systems (WSeB) |
| 2000-07-09 | OS/2: Support directory entries with 64 bit file sizes on OS/2 versions that support 64 bit file systems. |
| 2000-06-30 | Added 'follow' mode in viewer (Alt-F), follows the end of a growing file. |
| 2000-06-26 | Accelerate painting of brief modes by drawing a line at a time instead of an entry at a time. This also removes repaint flicker because the panel doesn't need to be cleared first. |
| 2000-06-25 | Fixed position of ticks on Left/Right menus. |
| 2000-06-23 | Alpha 3 released |
| 2000-06-23 | Fixed User Menu where last characters of menu text >127 were being truncated. |
| 2000-06-23 | Fix case sensitivity of directory tree quick search with non-English characters. |
| 2000-06-23 | Wasn't showing all files in a Win32 SFX ARJ. |
| 2000-06-22 | Length of file name on info line was incorrect in Brief view when not on the first column. |
| 2000-06-21 | Fixed crash using Append to clipboard function when clipboard is empty |
| 2000-06-20 | Alpha 2 released |
| 2000-06-20 | Added multi-drive search to File Find |
| 2000-06-19 | Fixed Tree popup crash (Alt-F10) |
| 2000-06-19 | Alpha 1 released |
The following changes have been completed since the release of v2.12 and will be included in the next release.
This page is maintained by Konstantin Zhilenko