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OFM Bulletin 2000

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The most important news for 2000

  • Ftp VFS actually has a pretty long history. Chapter 2 was updated. Material about Alex FTP VFS, Plan 9,  Oleg Kiselyov HTTP VFS, etc. was included.
  • Anti-Mac -- an interesting critique of MAC-style graphic interface. Very relevant to the idea of OFM
  • HTTP VFS Server and Client for MC by Oleg Kiselyov  was discovered
  • Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> made a pioneering work to run gtk on curses display. Take a look at Cursing gtk (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/cursed/cursed.html). That bridges the gap between classic and GUI-based OFM coding.
  • Web page of Jeffrey C. Johnson - Inventor of the Directory Tree and XTreeGold was found. Contains a great personal account of how Xtree -- yet another great and underappreciated file manager --  was actually created.
  • Advanced Midnight Commander -- a bugfixed and enhanced version of the Midnight Commander 4.1.35.
  • DN development seems to be resumed (see List SOFT. Necromancer's Dos Navigator) but then stopped.
  • Tk Commander  was discovered and then pronounced dead :-(. Development was stopped at version 0.7.1
  • X Northern Captain Current 4.2.1 (10-Jan-2000) became the best OFM for X

A polished, dual pane, text mode file manager with pulldown menus and mouse support. Quick, efficient navigation reminiscent of NC. Without doubt, a top pick if you have 386+ PC and enjoy customizing your file manager to suit your specific tastes. After using this program for a few months, I'd have to conclude that FW has entered the same league as the best shareware competition. Author: Antony-Denis Gulyas, Hungary (2000). Home Page. Suggested by Lars-Erik Sandberg.

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