Far Manager – file and archive manager

Far Manager is a program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems.

Far Manager has a multi-language, easily configurable interface. File system navigation is made easier through the use of color highlighting and sort groups.

Far Manager works in text mode and provides a simple and intuitive interface for performing most of the necessary actions:

• viewing files and directories;
• editing, copying and renaming files;
• and many other actions.

Plugins add functionality to the software, such as:

• Syntax highlighting in program source texts.
• Working with FTP-servers (including access through proxy).
• Search and replace in many files at the same time, using regular expressions.
• Renaming groups of files with support for complex compound masks consisting of substitution symbols and templates.
• NNTP/SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 clients and sending messages to a pager.
• Working with non-standard text screen resolutions.
• Conversion of texts from one national code page to another.
• Manipulating the contents of the Recycle Bin.
• Process priority control on local or network PC.
• Words autocomplete in editor and working with templates.
• Windows system registry editing.
• Creating and modifying Windows shortcuts.
• File and text operations making it more comfortable to use FidoNet.
• Files UU-encode and UU-decode.
• WinAmp control and MP3-tags modifying.
• Quake PAK-files processing.
• Printers control, both connected to PC and network.
• Connection and debugging of queries to ODBC-compatible databases.
• RAS service control.
• External programs executing (compilers, converters etc.) while editing text in Far editor.
• Windows help files contents displaying (.hlp and .chm).
• Calculators with different possibilities.
• Several games.
• Spell checker functions while editing text in Far editor.
• Removable drives catalog preparation and much more…

Starting from the version 1.80 (October 26th, 2007) Far Manager is distributed with its source code under the revised BSD license.

Website: farmanager.com
Support: Forum, GitHub code repository
Developer: Far Group
License: Revised BSD license

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