On 2023-03-09 15:46, Liam Proven wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 09:29, Per Jessen <per@jessen.ch> wrote:
Judging by the wikipedia page that Carlos kindly dug up, an OFM is text based.
No, not at all.
I did not know the term until I moved to the Czech Republic. My first landlord is a computer hobbyist, runs Windows and uses a tool called Total Commander. He loves it, and was amazed that I'd never heard of it.
:-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Commander Ah, made in object pascal. Delphi, and now Lazarus. I'm starting to love it ;-) Can run in Wine. Even better. Not that I'm going to use it in Linux, but I like this. I must try it in Windows. [...] Did so. It is shareware, a trial version for a limited time. Then I am afraid I'll drop it. I use Windows so little that it is not justified to pay for it.
He asked me what I used instead of it on Linux. I said that I didn't. He was shocked. He considers the Windows Explorer to be unusable, and still used this weird old tool that looked to me a bit like a Windows 3.0 File Manager.
It is maintained, so it means that it handles long names. The old 'nc' I'm afraid doesn't, dunno if there was a version that did.
In my 2nd job in Czechia, a Windows shop, I discovered that all machines in the company came with Total Commander pre-installed. The company had a site licence. _Everyone_ used it. It is huge in the Central European market. A few people use different but very similar tools.
:-D
There are loads of Linux ones, e.g. https://www.linuxlinks.com/orthodoxfilemanagers/
I don't get it. I don't feel any need for them, and I never usually use them at all. I am happy with Nemo or Thunar on my laptops.
But yes, they are very much still a thing and even today widely used and loved by thousands, maybe millions, of people. My Czech techie friends all use such tools and were really shocked when I told them that I had never even _seen_ such a thing in the UK techie community, not since the Amiga days and Directory Opus.
Indeed. I'm shocked. :-D
Which some Amiga-to-Linux migrants miss, too.
https://alternativeto.net/software/directory-opus/?platform=linux
The "OFM" seems to be a tool that people either love, or have never even heard of.
'mc' has some broken parts. Like the ssh browsing of another machine in the other panel (SFTP link). I wonder why, if there are so many users, it gets so little maintenance. Hum, I'm surprised, it seems to work now. I have been using "sshfs" fired externally for years. Or was it "SSH link"? No, shell link. <https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org/thread/ZZAS2R7LZX5RQQLR5KGKTACUJK5B5LOJ/#SJXAA2ZURJFHJFGUC6YMMF452TYOZKKV> Re: [opensuse] mc in 13.2: no "shell link" On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Carlos E. R. Hum. I don't have it clear if this sftp is secure ftp or ssh. It uses "/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server" on the other machine. :-? Huh, how come that the list archive displays the posts in variable width font? It makes posts like this unreadable. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)