### Welcome to X Northern Captain v.5.x.x

XNC Index: Overview Installation Panels Commands VFS_support Bookmark Extensions User Menu Hot Keys | X Northern Captain (XNC) is a file manager for X Windows. XNC has the same ideology as Norton Commander but also many additional and specific functions including a Virtual File System (VFS) with support for tar, zip, rar, rpm, deb, bzip2, and lha archives, FTP support, built-in terminal, viewer for JPEG, GIF, BMP, TGA, XPM, and XBM formats, an editor, users menu, extensions sociation, bookmarks for frequently used directories, and more. Two panels with highlighted directory listings give You simple and easy way to manipulate files on Your system. Built in xterminal window for executing shell commands. Bookmark feature allow You to remember Hot Directories and quick changing to it. Virtual File System can manipulate files in popular archive formats and over FTP connection as easy as with files on normal Disk file system (DFS). Wide variety of file operations: Browse directories on disks, archives and FTP sessions Copy/Move files from virtual file system Delete files View files in text/binary modes or as images Edit text files in builtin or external editor Execute files from any type of file system Change attributes of files Change owner of files Create archives File, directory and system information and more... (see commands for complete list) User difened file associations with your favourite applications Configurable user menu for often using commands. XDnd v3 - drag and drop protocol for mouse fans, that allow dragging files between xnc and many other polular applications like GNOME and KDE apps. Free way for defining your own hot keys to xnc commands via xncsetup tool. Skin plugins and color changing schema allows xnc to be configurable as you wish Many other configurable feature are accessible in xnc configuraion window. XNC is written in C++ and ported to many unix platforms, so you can use it on your favorite OS. For detail information about: Various installation schemas and process see Installation. Virtual File System organizations see VFS support. Panel conception and work with it see Panels. Bookmark manipulations see Bookmarks. Full list of xnc commands with description see Commands. How to write extension association file see Extensions. Define you own user menu in User menu. Default hot key mapping to xnc commands see Hot Keys.
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Author Leonid V. Khramov
leo@xnc.dubna.su
St-Petersburg
Russia
1995-2002