Volkov Commander

Infobox Software
name = Volkov Commander



caption = Volkov Commander features a character-based user interface.
developer = Vsevolod V. Volkov
released = ?
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = x86 assembly
operating system = DOS
language = ?
genre = File manager
license = Shareware, Beta
website = [http://www.egner-online.de/vc www.egner-online.de/vc]

Volkov Commander is an old Orthodox File Manager for DOS. Like other OFMs, Volkov Commander is also a dual-pane file manager in the close tradition of Norton Commander. The Volkov Commander has been completely written in assembly language, thus very small (less than 100KB) and fast.

Volkov Commander was written by Vsevolod V. Volkov, a programmer from Ukraine, born in 1971. The stable version of the program is released as shareware. A preview version is also available, which is interchangeably mentioned as an Alpha or Beta release at the website. (The Webmaster for the public face of VC was Daniel R. Egner of Germany.)

The first version was released in 1992.:4.05 (2000) is the last complete official stable version.:4.99.08 alpha/beta (2000) is the last official public version.

Version 4

Version 4.05 is the last fully functional release of the Volkov Commander. It is a pure DOS application, so it doesn't support special features of Windows 9x, like long filenames. (Apart from that, it can be used under Windows 9x) Besides the Russian version there is an English one. Version 4 is shareware and can be tested free for 30 days.

Version 4.99

Vsevolod Volkov was working on the new version 5 of his commander (VC 5). It was still in a phase of development. This upgrade works in a Windows 9x / Windows NT or OS/2-environment. VC 5 supports long filenames as well as archives (*.zip, *.arc, *.rar,...), that are handled just like directories. When updated last time, actual beta release was version 4.99.08 alpha. Most of the features of the final release are already available. Though it is a pure DOS application, the new commander supports some of the special features of Windows 95/98/NT. "Beta version (4.99.xx), of course, can be tested for free, because in this stadium of development it does not yet represent a complete program."

Rumored later version

Rumours about existing Version 5 of Volkov Commander::In the community someone posted about existing VC 5. Here is what Vsevolod answered:: [...] VC 5.0 is a fake. The last released version is 4.99.08 alpha. [...] I really didn't release new version for very long time. So, development of VC is hold in fact. But I don't exclude possibility of new releases. I have no roadmap and could not promise something." [ [http://www.egner-online.de/vc/en/news.shtml] ]

VC 4.99.08 is included within UBCD v3.4, as part of the general FreeDOS base package.

ee also

*Comparison of file managers
*Orthodox File Manager

References

External links

* [http://www.egner-online.de/vc/en/intro.shtml The official English site of Volkov Commander]
* [http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/Ch03/volkov_commander.shtml VC line of OFM - a masterpiece of assembler programming] – from Softpanorama ebook "The Orthodox File Manager (OFM) Paradigm"