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I can tell this is inspired by Norton Commander.

My obvious question: Why use fman when I can use Midnight Commander (for Linux) and Far Manager for Windows? Both are very powerful and mature.

One reason I ask: fman requires a paid license for business use, whereas the other two do not.

(Wrote a Midnight Commander guide once: http://nawaz.org/media/docs/mc/mc.pdf )



Both are command-line only and some people just want a GUI.


Neither mc nor far cause problems in GUI environments.

I use Windows at work. All I have to do is click on the Far icon and it pops up in a window.

You can do something similar with mc in Linux.


MC and Far are TUI, not command-line. Just because it's text-mode doesn't mean it's not a UI.

Far even does drag and drop between panels, and context menus (and it uses the standard Shell context menu, just rendered in text mode).




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