Altap Salamander (formerly known as Servant Salamander) is a shareware orthodox file manager for Windows, originally inspired by Norton Commander. In contrast to several other file managers, it has a context aware user interface hiding complexity - for instance, the bottom function list changes on press of modifier keys, just showing the currently available hotkey function set. Image File history File links ServantSalamanderLogo. ... Image File history File links Screenshot of Servant Salamander 2. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Orthodox File Managers (OFM), also known as Commander-like file managers, are the family of file managers based on the old Norton Commander interface. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Orthodox File Managers (OFM), also known as Commander-like file managers, are the family of file managers based on the old Norton Commander interface. ... A file manager is a computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Pre-Symantec version of Norton Commander for DOS Norton Commander v. ...

Its development was started in 1996 as a hobby project by Petr Šolín (from Czech Republic) during his studies at university and released as a freeware in 1997. It was originally written in Watcom C++, later in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. The last freeware version, 1.52, is still available for download. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Watcom International Corporation was founded in 1981 from the research of the Computer Systems Group at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

The first shareware version 2.0 was released in 2001 by a newly established company Altap. Salamander 2.0 included support for Viewer and Archiver plugins. During the development of 2.5 version the plugin architecture was expanded to support File System plugins to support FTP and other protocols. Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A plugin (plug-in, addin, add-in, addon or add-on) is a computer program that interacts with a main (or host) application (a web browser or an email program, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function on demand. ... In computing, a file system (often also written as filesystem) is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ... “FTP” redirects here. ...

The plugin SDK for 2.5 version should be released in the near future and allows plugin developers to create new viewer plugins (for file previews), archiver plugins (for browsing/unpacking/packing archives), file system plugins (for custom directory listing) and tools (like multi-rename or file compare). Custom column plugins known from Total Commander are not supported. This is a list of formats used by Archiving software in archiving and data compression. ... Total Commander is a shareware Orthodox File Manager (OFM) for Windows. ...

See also

• List of file managers
• Comparison of file managers

The following is a list of file managers: // Windows Explorer — System default; tree, single-panel navigation File Manager— Windows 3. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file managers. ...

External links

• The official site of Altap, authors of Altap Salamander
• The official discussion forum dedicated to Altap Salamander