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'Demos Commander' (deco) is an Orthodox File Manager for Unix-like systems and a clone of Norton Commander. The project started by Serge Vakulenko at 1989 while working at the DEMOS ISP (thus the name 'De'mos 'Co'mmander - ''deco'') and is considered one of the first orthodox file managers for the Unix-like systems^[1].

Contents

Interface

Small footprint

Current development

References

See also

External links

Interface

Demos Commander is a text mode application. The main interface consists of two panels which display the file system. It is used in a similar way to many other programs run in the Unix shell. Arrow keys control file selection, the insert key is used to select files (but no directories) and the Function Keys perform operations such as renaming, editing and copying files. Unlike many full screen programs that run in console, Demos Commander is not capable to resize itself when the console changes resolution (for example, when a xterm window is resized) nor able to support any other console resolution than 80x24.

Small footprint

While lacking features found in more elaborate OFM programs, Demos Commander is suited for rescue disk setups and for very limited systems (such as 486 based systems) because of it's small memory footprint (less than one MiB), small binary size (a few hundred KiB) and close to zero dependencies (only ncurses is required).

Current development

Demos Commander seems to not be under active development any more, with the last version released at 2001 in source code form and a User's Manual for version 3.2.2 at 1993.

References

1. deco -- the UNIX OFM pioneer

See also

★ Orthodox File Manager

★ Midnight Commander

★ Norton Commander

★ Comparison of file managers

External links

★ Current Demos Commander home page