Saturday, July 23, 2011

In praise of Far Manager

I personally hate Windows Explorer - it's very unsafe (you can't disable the drag and drop, which is a major source of trouble) and buggish. It lacks even the fundamental feature of displaying 2 directories side by side.

The almost first thing I do when I have a new computer is to install Far Manager
http://www.farmanager.com/download.php?l=en

with its WinSCP plugin.
For those who have used Norton Commander in the old DOS days, it's basically the same.

The WinSCP plugin lets you seamlessly connect to a remote system through SSH and operate as it was a local filesystem - it even acts as a terminal.

Some love Total Commander, my experience still favours Far Manager.

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