Short: MyCommander X-Phile Edition Author: x.phile.us@gmail.com (Philip Yaromenka), alb42 at web.de (Marcus Sackrow) Uploader: x phile us gmail com (Philip Yaromenka) Type: util/dir Version: 1.1 Requires: ENV: and T: assigns; optional lha/lzx in C: and xadmaster.library Architecture: m68k-amigaos; ppc-amigaos; ppc-morphos; i386-aros Distribution: Aminet Distribution: Aminet URL: https://github.com/alb42/MCAmiga MCAmiga - X-Phile Edition ========================= A Norton Commander / Midnight Commander style two-panel file manager for the whole Amiga family. It runs in a text window (or its own screen) and lets you browse, copy, move, view, edit, compress and compare files entirely from the keyboard, with optional mouse and drag-and-drop support. This is MCAmiga - X-Phile Edition (version 1.1). The original project is by alb42 and lives at https://github.com/alb42/MCAmiga. Licensed CC0 - see the LICENSE file. The X-Phile Edition adds a pull-down menu bar, quick view, directory history, sort/filter dialogs, a properties/protection editor, fullscreen toggling, directory comparison and many smaller refinements on top of the original. Supported systems ================= System CPU / ABI ------ --------- AmigaOS 3.x m68k (68020+; a 68000 build also exists) AmigaOS 4.x PowerPC MorphOS 3.x PowerPC AROS i386 (ABIv0), ARM RasPi 1-3 (ABIv0), x86-64 (ABIv1, NonSMP) A secondary Linux build mode exists in the Lazarus project, but the program is built around Amiga units and the text-mode RTL, so it is meaningfully usable only on Amiga-family targets. Requirements ============ - AmigaOS 3.x: 68020 CPU, 4 MB RAM (minimum). - AmigaOS 4.x / MorphOS: PowerPC. - AROS: i386, ARM (RasPi 1-3) or x86-64. Needed assigns: ENV: and T: Optional, for archives: - lha and lzx commands in C: (for LHA/LZX read AND write). On AROS the bundled lha is incompatible - use the xad path instead. - An installed xadmaster.library to read many additional archive formats (read-only). Installing and starting ======================= 1. Copy the MCAmiga executable and its MCAmiga.info icon anywhere you like. 2. Double-click the icon from Workbench, or run MCAmiga from a Shell. 3. Optionally copy the shell helper scripts mc, mcview, mcdiff to C: and make them executable (these are Amiga shell scripts, NOT POSIX): protect c:mc swerd After that you can simply type "mc" to launch the manager, "mcview " to open the viewer, or "mcdiff " to compare two files. If the font looks too large, set the environment variable FPC_VIDEO_BUILTINFONT to vga8 and restart: echo vga8 >env:FPC_VIDEO_BUILTINFONT To make it permanent, create the same variable in ENVARC:. You can also cycle font sizes at runtime with Ctrl+F1. Feature overview ================ - Dual-panel browsing of directories, devices/volumes/assigns, and archives. - Three listing formats - Brief (names only), Full (name + size), Long (name + size + date + protection flags). - Three panel view modes - normal List, Info (shows details of the other panel's selected item), and a directory Tree. - File operations - copy, copy-as (to a typed name), move, rename, make directory, delete (with or without confirmation), recursively over multiple selected items. - Flexible selection - by key, by range (Shift+Up/Down), and by wildcard pattern (+ to select, - to deselect). - Sorting - by name, extension, size or date, ascending or descending; via hotkeys or a sort dialog. - Per-panel file-name filter (e.g. #?.txt). - Directory size scan to total up a folder's contents. - Quick view - a fast, paged, full-window text peek without launching the full viewer. - Built-in text and hex viewer with search, search-again, jump-to-line / address, word-wrap and a basic syntax highlighter for .ini / patch / diff files. - External viewer/editor support - up to two of each, configurable. - Side-by-side file comparison (diff) using a Myers-algorithm engine. - Directory comparison - marks files that differ or are missing between the two panels, ready for a one-key copy. - Archive support - browse/copy/move/rename/view/edit inside LHA and LZX archives; read many more formats through xadmaster.library; pack selected items to LHA/LZX; extract. - Run executables directly (wait or don't-wait), with a configurable stack size. - File find - recursive, name and content search, with case-sensitivity options. - Quick name search - type the start of a name to jump to it. - Properties dialog and protection-bit editor (hsparwed). - Directory history - jump back to recently visited directories. - MC-style pull-down menu across Left / File / Command / Options / Right. - Fullscreen (own screen) <-> window toggle, font-size cycling, runtime clock toggle. - Mouse control and Workbench drag-and-drop (AppWindow / icon drop). - Persistent settings saved back into the program icon's tooltypes. - Optional logging for troubleshooting. - Amiga-aware niceties - optional automatic handling of .info icon files alongside their parent file, optional automatic drawer-icon creation, configurable default Shell, CP437 / German-umlaut text rendering. Complete keyboard reference =========================== See in readme file inside archive or via F1 button in application Archives ======== MCAmiga treats archives like directories - enter one with Enter and the panel shows its contents. - LHA / LZX - full read/write by shelling out to C:lha / C:lzx. Inside these archives you can browse, copy, move, rename, view and edit. - xadmaster.library - read-only access to the many formats xad supports (browse, view and extract). When several handlers claim a file, the one with the highest priority wins. - Pack (Alt+F5) - compress the selected items into an LHA archive (LZX is available from the Tools menu). - Unpack (Alt+F6) - once you've entered an archive, select files and press Alt+F6 to extract them to the destination panel. (Extracting whole archives is also available from the Tools menu.) If pressing Enter on a .lha/.lzx seems to do nothing, the required lha/lzx command is probably missing from C: - MCAmiga surfaces this with a pop-up and a log entry. License and credits =================== MCAmiga is multi-licensed: the application's own code is public domain, but it bundles one third-party source file and links external Amiga libraries that keep their own terms. Credits ------- - Original author: alb42 - https://github.com/alb42/MCAmiga - Diff engine: Angus Johnson's TDiff (Myers algorithm), Diff.pas - MCAmiga - X-Phile Edition (1.1) adds the additional features and tooling described above. Version history =============== MCAmiga - X-Phile Edition 1.1 Additions on top of the 0.9 origin release: - MC-style pull-down menu bar (F9 / Alt+F10): Left, File, Command, Options, Right groups, with a live modifier-row bottom menu. - Quick view (Alt+F3): full-window paged text preview with page X/Y count, Home/End page jumps and a scrollbar. - Directory history (Alt+F8) and a selectable-list dialog. - Sort modes (Ctrl+F3 name, Ctrl+F4 ext, Ctrl+F5 size, Ctrl+F6 date) plus a Sort order dialog; per-panel file-name Filter. - Listing formats (Brief/Full/Long) and Info / Tree view modes. - Properties dialog (Ctrl+P) and protection-bit editor (Ctrl+T). - Directory comparison (Alt+F9); Pack (Alt+F5) and Unpack (Alt+F6) wiring. - .info / hidden-file display toggles (Ctrl+F7, Ctrl+F8). - Edit tooltypes (Ctrl+E); Save setup (Shift+F1) and Save tooltypes (Shift+F2). - Fullscreen <-> window toggle (Ctrl+W) preserving window position/size, font-size cycling (Ctrl+F1), runtime clock toggle (Ctrl+F2). - Richer in-program Help, command-line -fullscreen flag, optional debug log. - AmigaOS 4 build fix and a reproducible multi-architecture build/packaging path (m68000, m68020, AmigaOS 4 PPC, MorphOS PPC). - Many smaller refinements and bug fixes. 1.0 - faster redrawing (define area of screen to update, new FPC feature, needs latest FPC) - clock with seconds (possible because of faster redrawing) - RUNSTACK tooltype to set stack size for starting external programs 0.9 (origin of the X-Phile Edition) - difference viewer in tools menu - basic highlighter for ini, patch/diff files - bugfix for start from WBDock2 - startup scripts to directly start the viewer/diffviewer from shell - bugfix for file size