Excellent! Great doco too.
Show HN: Cloud Commander orthodox web file manager with console and editor
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Web version of mc on JS base What is mc?
"mc" is software that runs on "Linux" systems, in something called a "terminal". "Linux" is a free (as in freedom) computer system that is very "hacker"-friendly - ask around in your circles, maybe you can find anybody who is familiar with computers and is also experienced with "coding" and she can show you this "Linux" computer system that is preferred by "hackers". Maybe your mom or your dad will allow you to insta…
Maybe your mom and dad will teach you some manners if you ask them nicely.
Re: Show HN: Cloud Commander orthodox web file manager with console and editor
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the site, it seems to be a Web version of mc on JS base, making file management outside of trusted ssh devices less of a nuisance. Fairly straightforward imho.
> Web version of mc on JS base What is mc?
"mc" stands for midnight commander, which is itself a clone of Norton commander, which was sold by Symantec in the 80s and 90s. Norton commander was popular enough that by the time it was discontinued it had been ported to many other platforms (midnight commander being one of the ports for unix systems). Over time, Norton commander became the prototype for the "orthodox file manager", the category of file managers with two side-by-side file browser windows: many of the same key bindings for this category of file manager are the same as the original norton commander keybindings.
Midnight commander (and more generally an orthodox file manager) is especially useful for moving files from one system to another, as it usually supports browsing to remote file systems over ssh or ftp, and gives you a simultaneous view of where you're moving files from and to on the same screen.
The Wikipedia page is a pretty interesting read, actually: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
Re: Show HN: Cloud Commander orthodox web file manager with console and editor
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Web version of mc on JS base What is mc?
"mc" stands for midnight commander, which is itself a clone of Norton commander, which was sold by Symantec in the 80s and 90s. Norton commander was popular enough that by the time it was discontinued it had been ported to many other platforms (midnight commander being one of the ports for unix systems). Over time, Norton commander became the prototype for the "orthodox file manager", the category of file managers wi…
Actually it started as a independent company that Symantec bought in the 90s.
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#15Makes me wish this was what Firefox would present me with if i entered a ftp url...
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
"mc" stands for midnight commander, which is itself a clone of Norton commander, which was sold by Symantec in the 80s and 90s. Norton commander was popular enough that by the time it was discontinued it had been ported to many other platforms (midnight commander being one of the ports for unix systems). Over time, Norton commander became the prototype for the "orthodox file manager", the category of file managers wi…
Actually it started as a independent company that Symantec bought in the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norton_Computing
Fascinating, TIL–thanks!
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#17I have been trying to break a FAR manager addiction for many many years, despite being a linux user exclusively for the last 10, FAR is the most useful shell I have ever used. mc doesn't cut it.
I guess my may have seen it, but there appears to a project ongoing to try to port FAR to Linux.
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#18Hey, that looks like Norton Commander in the browser! Even the icon is an homage to the original. Neat. Also TIL that "orthodox" file manager is an actual term, and there's even a huge online book about them [1]. That's funny, we used to call then just "file managers"... ;) 1. http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/index.shtml
Oh, what Norton used to be. I cut my teeth on Norton Utilities once upon a time. The only way to write batch files!
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#19This has to be the greatest logo I've seen in a while. Did you create it yourself and if so what did you use?