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Developer(s) | Eugene Roshal (1996–2000) Far Group (2000–present) |
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Initial release | 10 September 1996[1] |
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Written in | C++ |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, BSD Unix, OSX, Linux port[2] |
Available in | English, Russian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish, Slovak, Italian, Ukrainian, Belarusian |
Type | File manager |
License | BSD-3-Clause |
Website | farmanager |
Far Manager (short for File and ARchive Manager) is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and is a clone of Norton Commander. Far Manager uses the Win32 console and has a keyboard-oriented user interface (although limited mouse operation, including drag-and-drop, is possible).
Far Manager was created by Eugene Roshal, and has been under development by the Far Group since 2000. The project's Unicode branches (2.0 and 3.0) are open-source (under the BSD-3-Clause license). All branches are available as 32- and 64-bit builds. Far Manager is often viewed as a very customizable file manager and text editor, and a free alternative to Total Commander.[3][4][5]