Windows Commander was the former name of Total Commander. It changed the name in 2002 after Christian Ghisler received a cease-and-desist letter about trademark usage from Microsoft.
Microsoft has been known to be perhaps overzealous in their trademark protection at times, but I think that's a valid complaint. It fills the same niche as Windows Explorer so confusion was quite possible. I always had Total Commander on my BartPE images back in the day.
Re:Double Commander
by notyourday on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:49AM
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This is missing vc - Volkov Commander - written in assembly. It was tiny, had amazingly complete functionality and was blazingly fast.
I loved VC. Its tiny size (less than 100k) made it fit on any floppy disk, even when it was already almost full. It inspired me by showing how powerful our computers are. It was an order of magnitude smaller than NC, if I remember correctly.
Here's some short story about VC: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027035410/http://www.softpa...
I loved Volcov commander. Apart from a tiny size and super-fast speed, I remember it could handle Cyrillic admirably, contrary to Norton Commander.
Re:Double Commander
by ihateolives on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:08PM
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There were more, eg DOS navigator, Far manager. The latter is still in development.
Yes, sorry. I meant it to be illustrative of many of them being out there and influencing one another. I'm not sure I could put together a definitive list in the scope of an HN comment. vc was definitely worth mentioning, so thanks for bringing it up.
Then there's Far Manager, with is the thing if what you want is the classic blue TUI on Windows:
Re:Double Commander
by MichaelMoser123 on Thursday August 04, 2022 @03:00AM
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Far also has a lot of plug-ins, it has a community who do these!
Re:Double Commander
by themadturk on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @02:41PM
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FreeCommander is my go-to for Windows. Though I'm a Mac user at home, I'm stuck on Windows at work and paid for the 64-bit version of FreeCommander. File Manager seems to be some alien thing, and I still work with lots of files at work.
Re:Double Commander
by badsectoracula on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:26PM
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Makes sense since Double Commander is literally a Total Commander clone, way more than Total Commander was a Norton Commander(, etc) clone :-P.
Re:Double Commander
by lucas_membrane on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:30PM
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Gnome commander is OK for me; where does it fit on the family tree? 'tis easier for me to let my eyeballs do the walking than to figure out and type a regex that is going to find just what I want.
Re:Double Commander
by tambourine_man on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:07PM
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I looked for a Mac binary to download but there is none. You probably have to build it from source.
Or `brew install double-commander` which grabs a dmg from SourceForge.
You'll have to right-click and Open it in the Finder's Applications folder to get past the fact that it's unsigned, but it seems to work an M1 running MacOS 12.4 (Monterey)
Yeah, but it will install older version. About a year ago they stopped publishing macOS binaries although you can still download nightly macOS builds but they won't cut official releases as they used to.
Developer's explanation: https://doublecmd.h1n.ru/viewtopic.php?p=35121#p35121
I use DC on Mac and TC on Win. One of the problems with Mac DC is that the key reassignment don't use the standard Mac Control, Option, Command keys. They do map to the Win equivalents of Ctrl, Alt, Win keys but not always. And trying to override the Mac's almost hard key assignment of the F1-F12 keys is problematic.
It even still uses the same hotkeys as Norton Commander. Still, it supports Total Commander's plugins in case someone is using those, it's LGPL, it looks like a decent example of a useable Free Pascal application to dive into contributing against, it's cross-platform (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS), and it builds against gtk2, qt4, or qt5. Overall it looks like a nice project. It could probably use a commit in the About page for a first contribution to the project noting a little more history of its lineage.