Altap Salamander
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| Developer(s) | ALTAP |
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Orthodox file manager |
| License | Freeware, GPL-2.0 for Open Salamander |
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Altap Salamander (formerly known as Servant Salamander) is a freeware orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows, originally inspired by Norton Commander. In contrast to several other file managers, it has a context aware user interface hiding complexity – for instance, the bottom function list changes on press of modifier keys, just showing the currently available hotkey function set.[4]
Servant Salamander 1.0 development was started in 1996 as a hobby project by Petr Šolín (from Czech Republic) during his studies at university and released as freeware in 1997. It was originally written in Watcom C++, later in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0.
Altap Salamander 2.0 the first shareware version was released in 2001 by a newly established company Altap. Salamander 2.0 included support for viewer and archiver plugins. During the development of 2.5 version the plugin architecture was expanded to support file system plugins to support FTP and other protocols.
Altap Salamander 2.5 plugin SDK allows plugin developers to create new viewer plugins (for file previews), archiver plugins (for browsing/unpacking/packing archives), file system plugins (for custom directory listing) and tools (like multi-rename or file compare). Custom column plugins known from Total Commander are not supported, neither yet non-latin alphabets of the Unicode.
Altap Salamander 3.x version series newly supports the MS Windows 7 and higher, two binaries are available, for users' choice: 32-bit and 64-bit.
Altap Salamander 4.0 has become freeware,[5] however active development has been indefinitely suspended as of July 2019.[6]
Open Salamander 5.0. as open source code was released on December 4th, 2023[7] under the GPL-2.0 license, no packages "releases" are yet published.[8]
Altap (altap.cz) was acquired by Fine (fine.cz), a geotechnical engineering software developer.[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ https://www.altap.cz/salamander/changelogs/40/.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b https://www.altap.cz/salamander/changelogs/.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ https://www.altap.cz/salamander/changelogs/30b4/.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Hoffman, J. K. (6 May 2014). "Altap Salamander". Diary of a network geek. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
You can also use the context-sensitive menu to rename and delete files or directories, create directories, edit files or use the built-in viewer to preview files, all with the touch of a function key.
- ^ "Altap Salamander is now a freeware". www.altap.cz. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ "Is Salamander dead? - Page 4 - Altap Salamander Support Forums". forum.altap.cz. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ "Open Salamander is now released and we look forward to its further development on GitHub". forum.altap.cz.
- ^ "OpenSalamander/salamander: Open Salamander". GitHub. Archived from the original on 19 September 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ^ "Altap Salamander - Powerful Two Panel File Manager". www.altap.cz. Archived from the original on 27 November 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
External links
[edit]- Official website - altap.cz
- Release Notes Altap Salamander 4.0
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