Altap Salamander (formerly known as ''Servant Salamander'') is a
freeware orthodox file manager for
Microsoft Windows
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, 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.
Its 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.
The first
shareware
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version 2.0 was released in 2001 by a newly established company Altap. Salamander 2.0 included support for viewer and archiver
plugins
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** Audio plug-in, adds audio signal processing features
** Photoshop plugin, a piece of software t ...
. During the development of 2.5 version the plugin architecture was expanded to support
file system
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plugins to support
FTP and other protocols.
The plugin SDK for 2.5 version 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.
The version 3 series newly supports the
MS Windows 7
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and higher, two binaries are available, for users' choice: 32-bit and 64-bit.
Starting with version 4.0, Salamander has become freeware again, however active development has been indefinitely suspended as of July 2019.
See also
*
comparison of file managers
References
External links
*
Altap Salamander Release Notes
C++ software
FTP clients
Orthodox file managers
Windows-only shareware
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