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freeCommander is an orthodox file manager for Windows operating systems, following the popular dual-panel concept. It is very similar to the Total Commander file manager. The software is released free of charge, and distribution for profit is not allowed. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Orthodox File Managers (OFM), also known as Commander-like file managers, are the family of file managers based on the old Norton Commander interface. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Total Commander is a shareware Orthodox File Manager (OFM) for Windows. ...
Features
Dual-panel directory view.
Tree view (optional for each panel).
Built-in nested archive handling for zip, cab, or rar files.
Built-in archiver.
Fast file search, including files into archives.
Built-in file viewer supporting text, hexadecimal, or binary files, as well as various image formats. File viewer also works for compressed files.
Image browser.
Directory comparison and synchronization.
Built-in MD5 support (creates and verifies MD5 checksums).
File splitting for big files, where archiving is not enough.
Customizable toolbars.
Supports zip, cab, and rar format (files can be opened for reading).
May be installed and run from a removable storage device (such as a USB flash drive).
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Limitations
Archiving capabilities are limited to zip and cab archives (e.g., no support for tgz, bzip2, 7z).
File search lacks search history.
The ZIP file format is a popular data compression and archival format. ... In computing, CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format. ... In computing, the tar file format is a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format. ... bzip2 is an open source data compression algorithm and program developed by Julian Seward. ... 7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing filters. ...