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File and ARchive Manager is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and a clone of Norton Commander. FAR Manager makes use of Win32 consoles, and is mostly key-driven. The Manager's functionality is easily extended with plugins. 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. ...
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Pre-Symantec version of Norton Commander for DOS Norton Commander v. ...
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Its orthodox file manager design, combining the ease and speed of two non-graphic file panel views, with the power of a full-fledged command console, makes it a very powerful, productive, easy to learn file manager. Panels may be fully customized as to which columns are show and in which detail and order, operations may be done to and from either panel, panels and console are active at the same time (and use different keys), and all basic and most advanced operations can be done with simple key combinations, optionally shown on screen. It is far more powerful than most modern GUI shells, as it allows for wildcard selection, macros, advanced filtering, sorting and highlighting, and of course, the command console, which, unlike Midnight Commander, it is smoothly integrated and not limited to a single line of command entry. Gui is short for Guilherme or Guilhermo or an iteration of that, in English it translates to Will. ...
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FAR Manager is complete with an internal viewer and editor, customizable user menus, tree views, file search, compare, key macros, integrated help, and a task switcher for its tools.
Popular plugins installed by default include FTP, Windows network, temporary panel (sandbox), process list, print manager, filename case converter, and several editor plugins to format, wrap, or alter text. There are many other plugins available from PluGRinG site. FTP may refer to: File Transfer Protocol Foiled Twisted Pair This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
Originally, the FAR Manager was written by Eugene Roshal, but now the development is carried on by a team named the FAR Group. Eugene Roshal was born March 10, 1972 in Russia, graduated from Chelyabinsk technical university. ...
FAR Manager is distributed by RarSoft, and available as free download, the license is 40 days shareware for everyone and freeware for non-commerical use only by citizens of former USSR countries.
See also
The following is a list of file managers: // For Windows Windows Explorer — System default; tree, single-panel navigation A43 — Single or dual-panel, extremely configurable. ...
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file managers. ...
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