Volkov Commander

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Volkov Commander

Volkov Commander features an OFM user interface.
Developer:	Vsevolod V. Volkov
OS:	DOS
Use:	OFM, File manager
License:	Shareware, Beta
Website:	www.egner-online.de/vc

Volkov Commander is a file manager for DOS. It belongs to a special category of file managers that are called "orthodox file managers" or OFMs. These are all close clones of Norton Commander. The Volkov Commander has been completely written in assembly language, so it is very small (about 100KB) and fast.

The author of Volkov Commander is Vsevolod V. Volkov, a programmer from Ukraine, born 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.

5.0 (2000-2) is probably fake (but might be unofficial-leaked version)

1 Version 4
2 Version 4.99
3 Rumored later version
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Version 4

Version 4.05 is the last fully functionable 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, of course!) Besides the Russian version there is an English one. Version 4 is shareware and can be tested free for 30 days.

[edit] 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."

[edit] 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."^{[citation needed]}

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