Open Source Software - open source file manager?

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open source file manager?

Paul H

2005-03-02, 8:59 pm

I have been finding ways to support open source software for a
couple of years now. I just love having as few M$ apps as
possible. I use Litestep as my shell, OpenOffice for my work, and
so on. However I really would like to have an open source file
manager. Does anyone know of one?

Paul

Michael B. Johnson

2005-03-04, 8:57 pm

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:20:43 GMT, Paul H <ncc-1701d@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

>I have been finding ways to support open source software for a
>couple of years now. I just love having as few M$ apps as
>possible. I use Litestep as my shell, OpenOffice for my work, and
>so on. However I really would like to have an open source file
>manager. Does anyone know of one?

Midnight Commander or its variants. These are open source and fairly
powerful. I believe there are MS Windows variants available.

~~~~
Myself, I use a pay /shareware/ $35? utility called Windows Commander.
Ok, Microsoft made them change it, so it's now called Total Commander.
See www.ghisler.com. Rock solid work, really useful - worth every
dollar I paid for two licenses.

Disclaimer: No one paid me to write this, and I'm not affiliated with
them in any way. I don't think they are a public company, and
regardless I own none of their stock.

Additional Features of Windows Commander that I like
---------------------------------------------------------
* Compare files (binary or text)
* Synchronize directory contents to make backups/identify what's
different - like rsync but interactive
* Restrict view to the files you are interested in (*.doc;*.htm?) and
hide other files
* Branch view with subdirectories (see what's in folder and
sub-folders without navigating to each sub-folder)
* FTP Client
* Calculate occupied space (find out - how big is a sub-directory or
directories?)
* Quick View (preview text, html, rtf, graphics files in a
sub-directory, quickly)
* Multi-rename tool
* Zip handling
* Internal file viewer (HTML, Unicode, Text, Binary, Bitmaps)
* Search facilities galore! Search for files named x, modified within
last x days, of x size, with text 'x' or not containing text 'x',
inside zip files, regular expressions and really! - much more.
* Minimizes to the system tray to get out of my way.
_______________________
Michael B. Johnson

Paul H

2005-03-05, 3:58 am

Michael B. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:20:43 GMT, Paul H <ncc-1701d@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Midnight Commander or its variants. These are open source and fairly
> powerful. I believe there are MS Windows variants available.
>
> ~~~~
> Myself, I use a pay /shareware/ $35? utility called Windows Commander.
> Ok, Microsoft made them change it, so it's now called Total Commander.
> See www.ghisler.com. Rock solid work, really useful - worth every
> dollar I paid for two licenses.
>

OK, this isn't open source, but I did find a decent File Manager
that is freeware. xplorer2 http://www.zabkat.com/ . It is not as
good as my old directory opus, but neither is it $50.

Thanks for the info anyways!

Christian Melsbach

2005-03-15, 8:59 am

Paul H wrote:
> Michael B. Johnson wrote:
>
>
> OK, this isn't open source, but I did find a decent File Manager that is
> freeware. xplorer2 http://www.zabkat.com/ . It is not as good as my old
> directory opus, but neither is it $50.
>
> Thanks for the info anyways!

There is an OpenSource Explorerreplacement called gxExplorer
(http://www.gxexplorer.org/index.html). But it´s still in early development.

Greetings
Chris

Paul H

2005-03-15, 4:00 pm

Christian Melsbach wrote:

> There is an OpenSource Explorerreplacement called gxExplorer
> (http://www.gxexplorer.org/index.html). But it´s still in early
> development.
>
> Greetings
> Chris

I don't know how you found that program, but it shows massive
potential! It appears that the latest development is from 2001.
Still, it is a very impressive file manager. It does have a few
quirks, and it needs dual pane display, but other than that a
very good file manager.

Thanks Chris.

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